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Pennsylvania Railroad in Columbus Ohio by Rick Tipton 2011 Hard Cover
Pennsylvania Railroad in Columbus Ohio by Rick Tipton
Hard Cover
Copyright 2011
By Rick Tipton
188 pages
Contents:
INTRODUCTION The Pennsy and Columbus, Ohio6
Buckeyes and "Buckeye Language"
CHAPTER 1 A Short History of Columbus Railroads 10
PRR Lines into Columbus
What's the Difference?
PRR Organization
Other Lines and Connections at Columbus 14
CHAPTER 2 Union Depot and its Passenger Trains 17
CUD III Track Layout
CHAPTER 3 St. Clair Avenue Enginehouse
Enginehouse Designs in the USRA Era Memories of Enginehouse and Shops MP229 Columbus Locomotive Assignments
CHAPTER 4 Pennsy Freight Yards67
The Icing Plant
Hog Drenchers
CHAPTER 5 20th St. Shops90
Problems with Centipedes
The Master Mechanic's Office
Scale and Shop Codes
CHAPTER 6 The Columbus & Newark (C&N) 104
The "Airway Limited" in Columbus
Ralston Steel Car Company
"RA" Tower
CHAPTER 7 Columbus & Xenia (C&X) 125
Details of Water Street and "the Alley"
CHAPTER 8 Chicago Columbus & Indiana Central (CC&IC) .. 133
The Bradford Line
The Dennison Avenue Switchtender
The Neil Track
Columbus-Chicago Coal on the PRR
CHAPTER 9 The Akron Branch (CA&C) 150
Passenger Service on the Akron Branch (CA&C) Neilston and the Joint N&W/CA&C Main Line
CHAPTER 10 The Sandusky Branch164
Coal Traffic on the Sandusky Branch
I vs. N vs. J
The Santa Fe 5011-Class 2-10-4s
Passenger Trains on the Sandusky Branch
Development of Coal Facilities at Columbus
Worthington, Ohio in the 1950s
Annotated Bibliography 185
This book examines the Pennsylvania Railroad's 118 years in and around Columbus, Ohio. During that time, the PRR was the largest railroad in Columbus, employing far more men and women than any other. From Columbus Union Depot, PRR passenger trains offered direct service to many points, and connections to sta! tions in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Columbus' freight yards dispatched merchandise trains to points all over Pennsy's system, and via interchanges sent freight cars all over North America. The PRR's shops at 20th St. performed regular maintenance on cars and locomotives, and were equipped to do complete rebuilds. Pennsy had other shops, but the fact that only the huge manufacturing complex at Altoona could do more than Columbus led to 20th St.'s nickname, "The Altoona of the West."
Readers will be of all backgrounds; some will be intimately familiar with the setting, while others will have never visited Columbus. Some will be professional railroaders, some will be rail hobbyists, and others may be interested family members or descendants of PRR employees. Some will treasure the details of railroad history or operation, and others will be more attracted to the pictures of the Pennsy in action. We hope to serve all well.
No one book can exhaust all the possible materials of interest. For that reason, the endnotes for each chapter and the bibliography in the Appendix refer the reader to other sources for more detail.
The PRR disappeared in 1968, when it merged with its archenemy New York Central, and became Penn Central. Since that time, railroading in Columbus, as elsewhere, has shrunken tremendously, with relatively few tracks and operations surviving. Likewise, the group of Columbus' living Pennsy veterans has shrunk, as aging retirees answer "the last call." Forty-three years later, the survivors, along with a corps of younger rail history enthusiasts, celebrate what PRR and Columbus did together in central Ohio.
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