Woodstock

Woodstock Tennessee is located 11 miles north of Central Station via the Passenger Main and 15 miles north of Johnston Yard via LA Belt

 

<em><strong>The Woodstock office is located at the north end of the yard.</strong></em>
The Woodstock office is located at the north end of the yard.
<em><strong>The Woodstock office is located at the north end of the yard.</strong></em>
<em><strong>Woodstock Yard looking north from Old Millington Road. The almost empty track is the passenger mainline used by Amtrak.</strong></em> 
<em><strong>The passenger main, looking south from Old Millington Road.</strong></em>
<em><strong>SW9 RSSX 8950, former CR 8950, in Dupont's yard just off Old Millington Road.</strong></em>
<em><strong>GP38-2 IC 9630 pulls across Fite Road as it shoves a car of scrap into the yard. In Woodstock's heyday, two switching jobs worked seven days a week switching industries at Woodstock. Today one job covers the Hollywood Yard on the LA Belt, industries at Woodstock and the few remaining industries in North Memphis.</strong></em>
<em><strong>9630 puts the car away.</strong></em>
<em><strong>An empty coal train with a few covered hoppers on the head end, passes through Woodstock.... </strong></em>
<em><strong>...and rumbles through Lucy, Tennessee...</strong></em>
<em><strong>...a couple of miles north of Woodstock.</strong></em>

 

The above pictures were taken August 23rd, 2009

 

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 The above sequence of pictures was taken September 28, 1999. The Illinois Central Executive Train was was being deadheaded on I03 to Memphis, where the IC cars were to be displayed  at Central Station on September 25th and 26th. The remainder of the train was to remain at Johnston Yard. On September 28th the train was reassembled and ran as a Director's Special to New Orleans. When these photos wereTaken, I03's power and the Executive Train had been  uncoupled from the rest of the consist and were en route to shove a grain train which had stalled on the LA Belt.



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