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Norfolk & Western Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad
Joyce Avenue/Pennor/Grogan Avenue Yards
circa 1950
The N&W’s banana shaped Joyce Avenue Yard from the east end looking west.
This was the northern most point on the 1950s N&W.
From here the Pennsylvania Railroad would take the strings of loaded coal cars either to the Lake Erie port of Sandusky
or to the Gary-Chicago area.
Photo from the Gary Rolih Collection.
Photo from the Gary Rolih Collection.
| 1. | The Norfolk & Western's Joyce Avenue Yard. In 1950 this was the northern most terminal of the N&W. |
| 2. | The Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennor Yard made up of the ten tracks on the north and east side of the N&W yard. |
| 3. | The Pennsylvania Railroad's Grogan Avenue Yard. Gorgan Yard was the staging yard for coal trains headed north to Sandusky. |
| 4. | The N&W's CW Interlocking Tower which controled the CA&C main, the east entrance to Grogan Yard, west entrance to Pennor Yard, and west entrance to Joyce Avenue Yard. |
| 5. | Cleveland Akron & Columbus Railroad (Pennsylvania Railroad) main line north to Akron and Cleveland. |
| 6. | The N&W and CA&C shared main to the CA&C yard, N&W freight house and Columbus Union Station. |
| 7. | N&W roundhouse and locomotive servicing facility. |
| 8. | Four tracks in the Joyce Avenue Yard were leased to the PRR for staging coal trains headed to the Chicago-Gary area. |
| 9. | N&W car repair facility. |
| 10. | N&W interchange track with the PRR Yard B. |
| 11. | This stub end track is the end of the New York Central (T&OC) Industrial spur that connected to the main line at Truro. In 1900 it was the main line of the Columbus Sandusky & Hocking Railroad and extended to a yard south of the State Fair Grounds along Cleveland Ave. |
| 12. | Remnants of the PRR’s emergency coal supply can be seen. In the 1940s John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers Union were often in dispute with coal mine owners. The PRR maintained an emergency coal supply in case of work stoppages. |