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The Gateway Yard of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, located in Youngstown, Ohio, opened in the fall of 1957 and remained in operation until CSX took over the P&LE and closed the yard in 1993. Gateway served as a place to classify and sort freight cars as well as an interchange with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. Most of the cars that entered the yard were destined for Youngstown's steel mills. ==History== The yard itself was built on over of land and stretched for more than covering the distance from the Center Street Bridge to Lowellville, Ohio.〔http://www.plerrhs.org/gatewayproject/gateway.shtm〕 The yard included a classification yard, office complex, diesel locomotive servicing facilities, and car repair facilities. The yard tower and yard office are housed in the same building. It is rather large and resembles an aircraft control tower. Running in front of the tower is the yard's hump that is used in the sorting freight cars. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Historical Society website 〔 includes a list of yard structures including their blueprints. Items include: * The Gateway Yard at work 〔http://www.plerrhs.org/common/indviewer.php?pic=2016〕 * Cars being sorted over the Hump 〔http://www.plerrhs.org/common/indviewer.php?pic=2067〕 * 1993 photo showing the rear of the tower 〔http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0101/vm3.jpg〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gateway Yard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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