Mother Nature and the P&LE railroad

[jay]

Do you have any photographs of this yard when it was operating?

[Smokey362]

It's strange how land is reclaimed.  Take a ride down State Route 289,Wilson Avenue from Youngstown to Struthers.  All along the right side of the road is a guard rail.  Looking down past the guard rail are a lot of trees, grasses, and open prairie.  When I worked on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, that was our Classification Yard (Class Yard).  It had 35 tracks that ran almost as far as Center Street.  Trains were built up, or broken down to ship freight all over the Country.  Now it looks as though the tracks were never there. Just past the old "Class yard" were the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Blast Furnaces.  They aren't there anymore either.