Buckeye yard

[Anonymous]

What is the current status of Buckeye yard? Is it still there? I know it was taken out of the east/west "loop" when Conrail shut down the Panhandle line. (I've been reading a wonderful book, A Sampling Of Penn Central, that details the operations of the PC Southern Region circa 1970.)

[Anonymous]

Buckeye yard is still active as of 5-4-03. I don't
know if it was downgraded since the merger. One reason it should remain active is because UPS is located next door. That may drive some business to the yard.

[Anonymous]

Just to elaborate: Buckeye Yard was still new when Stanley Crane decided to abandon CR's Pittsburgh-Columbus-Union City IN line in 1984 (it carried over 30 trains daily up till then). To avoid the likely embarrassment that closing Buckeye Yard would have caused, CR started diverting freights off its St Louis-Cleveland line to Buckeye for classifying. To reach Buckeye, trains used the Columbus-Toledo and Columbus-Gallion lines. This practice continued into the CR split up. With the NS takeover of Buckeye Yard and CR's Columbus-Cincinnati line, Buckeye is again located at an important junction, so it's future should be assured, unless NS decides it can do all its Ohio classification work at Bellevue. Not only is Buckeye Yard very active, NS's old yard on Columbus' south side (on the Bellevue-Portsmouth OH line) also is still active, including the intermodal facility. But who knows for how much longer, given NS's frugality.

John W. Baie, author, www.xlibris.com/TwoTrackMain.html

[Anonymous]

where can i get a copy of this book?

[AlcomanRSD]

Search for iupress. They are having a sale on certain books including: A Sampling of Penn Central.

[Anonymous]

It's available at Rail Hobby Trains, Inc., 3806 E. State St, Rockford IL 61108 (815-484-9388) and the Rochelle IL Railroad Park Gift Shop, 124 N. 9th St., Rochelle IL 61068 (815-562-8107)

It's also available online at the following:
amazon.com (which is now combined with borders),
barnes and noble.com, and
Xlibris.com

JB