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Ohio >
Nelsonville >
Ghost Yards
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Railyard full of derelict and decaying equipment tucked between a crappy new vinyl sided apartment complex and dead-end road with small houses.
Open to the public. Tour the railyard, ride the scenic railway.
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Type: Rail Yard
Status: Lightly Active
Accessibility: Easy - Visit the scenic railway!
Recommendation: worth the trip
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- 1918 3-story coaling tower
- Manual siding switches (I REALLY wanted to throw them but didn't)
- Boarded-up brick shop building
- Railroad construction equipment (still used)
- Muskingum Electric Railway interurban streetcar
- Ohio Power Company 0-4-0 steam switching locomotive w/out firebox
- 2 cabooses in various states of decay
- Numerous passenger and freight cars (inc. dry ice refrigerated car and tank cars)
- Crappy vinyl-sided apartments that back right up to the derelict equipment
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gloves
long pants / sleeves
towelettes
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This site was once the Nelsonville Switching Yards for the Hocking Valley Railway. The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest intrastate rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroad also carried iron, salt and passengers. The railway was begun on April 14, 1864 as the Columbus & Hocking Valley, built to haul coal from Athens to Columbus. Extensions of the line and consolidation of several branches ultimately created the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo. This was a 345-mile railway, extending from the Lake Erie port of Toledo through Columbus and on to the Ohio River port of Pomeroy. The history of the Hocking Valley, like that of other railroads, is one of boom times and depression. By the 1920s, the Hocking coalfields were largely depleted, and the mass of tracks south of Columbus became a backwater, while the Toledo Division boomed. On April 30 1930 the Hocking Valley Railroad was officially taken over by the C&O (Chesapeake and Ohio) with the subsequent abandonment over the next 50 years of substantial trackage in southeastern Ohio.
The trackage around Nelsonville to Athens was eventually acquired by the Hocking Valley Scenic Railroad who uses as their base the former Nelsonville Depot which is visible from Route 33. Not far away on another side of town lies the remains of the HVR's Nelsonville Yards where mothballed cars, equipment, and even locomotives are stored awaiting either their eventual restoration or (by the looks of it) collapse into a pile of rust. This railyard had around 6 tracks at the turn of the century, today it has 4 including a through track. In 1918 a large coaling tower was added to the yard which exists today.
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Allegedly all the equipment will be slowly restored, but that is probably decades away. Right now another Ohio Power locomotive is apparently being restored in the red corrugated HSVR shops in the yard, but they have run out of money to finish.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Emperor Wang on 8/8/2023 4:31 PM.
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on Aug 8 23 at 16:31, Emperor Wang validated this location
on Aug 8 23 at 16:30, Emperor Wang made this location public
on Aug 8 23 at 16:30, Emperor Wang changed the following: Interesting Features, Description
on Aug 8 23 at 13:46, fr00tCake changed the following: Street Address, Latitude, Longitude, Prefer Satellite, Accessibility, Media Coverage, Description, Web Links
on May 23 14 at 3:30, Steed validated this location
on Jan 2 14 at 0:44, Weatherboy added some pictures to a gallery
on Jan 2 14 at 0:42, Weatherboy added some pictures to a gallery
on Jan 2 14 at 0:36, Weatherboy updated gallery 2007 Visit
on Jan 2 14 at 0:35, Weatherboy created a new gallery
on Jan 12 07 at 20:17, Emperor Wang validated this location
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