Southern Railway Improvements at Memphis
Railway Age Gazette, June 19, 1914, page 1554
Southern Railway has begun construction of a large classification yard and engine terminal at Buntyn, six miles east of Memphis, and the contract for grading the grounds has been let to C.W. Lane & Co., of Atlanta, GA. The new terminal will be named Forrest. Two groups of tracks will be laid, a receiving yard and a distributing yard, with an aggregate length of track of about 15 miles. The eastbound classification yard and the westbound receiving yard will have 12 tracks with a capacity of 60-65 cars each, while the eastbound receiving and the westbound classification yards will be of about the same extent. The roundhouse will have 18 stalls and a 90-foot turntable, to be worked by power. The coal plant will be of reinforced concrete and have a capacity of 1,000 tons. There will be a small machine shop and a shed for freight car repairs. A two-story office building and a track scale of large capacity will complete the plant. |
Memphis Forrest Yard, 9/13/48 |
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Sid Davies Photo, Louis A. MArre Collection |
| This Southern freight is seen in the yard along Southern Ave in Memphis 1950. |
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Walter Cline Photo |
| This Missouri Pacific steam engine is seen in Forrest Yard following a deliery in the 1950s. |
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Walter Cline Photo |
| This switcher is seen in the yard with a box car. |
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Walter Cline Photo |
Southern Forrest Yard along Southern Ave. has been the site of trains of other railroad for over 30 years. Here we see a Rock Island train on the left and a Missouri Pacific train on the right, 6/30/74. |
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David Johnston Photo |
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