Abandoned NW yard Joyce rd Columbus Ohio

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Norfolk & Western Railroad

Scioto Valley Railroad (1876)

         The Norfolk & Western Railway, in Columbus, was originally built as the Scioto Valley Railroad in 1876. It started as a Columbus, Circleville, Chillicothe short line that was extended to Portsmouth in 1878. At first it didn't have much online business and no interchange business to speak of. That all changed when the little, short line was purchased by the Norfolk & Western Railroad in July 1890. This gave the N&W, still building westward through West Virginia, an outlet to the west for its coal traffic. In the beginning it supplied coal to the Sandusky Short Line (later to become the PRR's Sandusky Branch). As time passed it also delivered coal to the PRR for the Logansport (Piqua) line, to the Chesapeake and Ohio for the Toledo docks and to the Toledo and Ohio Central (NYC) also for the Toledo docks.
         The line entered Columbus from the south passing through the city just west of Alum Creek to its yard in the northeastern section of Columbus north of Fifth Avenue. It terminated into the Joyce Avenue Yard, an "L" shaped yard that ended near Joyce Avenue where the roundhouse and locomotive servicing facilities were located. By the late 1920's the Joyce Avenue Yard had become too small and the many long freight trains were tying up traffic crossing E. Broad Street and many other Columbus east-west arteries. The Joyce Avenue yard and the PRR Grogan Receiving Yard (renamed Pennor Yard), located adjacent to the N&W yard, were greatly expanded and a high fill was built elevating the tracks through Columbus. This project eliminated 10 grade and two railroad crossings. It increased the capacity of the yard from 1,600 to 3,750 cars. The new PRR Pennor yard was expanded to 10 tracks.

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