Aerial photograph of Lambert's Point Yard, 1960

Aerial photograph of the Lamberts Point Yard. The two piers in the lower left foreground are coal piers where coal is dumped directly into docked ships. Looking at the tracks in the picture from left to right, those on the far left, which is the south end of the yard, are the empty yard tracks for departing trains. The tracks, beginning about 12 or 15 tracks from the left, are those in the Barney or Hump yard. In this yard, coal cars are pushed up to the piers for dumping. Further to the right is a group of about 100 tracks, which comprise the classification and storage yard and the main coal yard at Lamberts Point. Just to the right and below the main coal yard is another group of 50 to 100 tracks which are also used for classification and storage, and which are sometimes called the Soda Yard. Directly in the center of the picture is the roundhouse and just below that are the tracks in the repair yard. To the right and slightly up from the roundhouse is another group of forty tracks used for classification and storage of freight cars. Further up and to the right are additional tracks and a series of warehouses which end at the water's edge, and three general merchandise piers where you can see several ships tied up. The picture clearly shows the curvatures on all tracks in Lamberts Point Yard. It also gives some idea of the number of cars handled here. The Lamberts Point Yard has about eight crews reporting on each shift. There are also four regular time freight crews that come in to Lamberts Point daily and also pool freight crews having about 200 coal cars in a consist. The yard crews in the main coal yard all work with double units because of the heavy tonnage involved, and are constantly moving over crossovers which are about 20 in number and 100 to 150 feet in length, at the west end of the yard.