LVRR Locomotive Shops

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Completed in 1904 at a cost of $750,000, LVRR's Sayre locomotive shop was at the time of its completion, and for some time thereafter, one of the largest buildings in the United States and measured 747ft long by 360ft wide. The building was the first to have internal cranes traversing all three of its separate halls, which consisted of two erecting shops flanking a central machine shop space. The cranes allowed heavy locomotive parts and entire trains themselves to be quickly moved around to different shops for maintenance or construction with little delay, and are now commonplace in most heavy manufacturing facilities.

LVRR used these shops to construct new steam locomotives for their operations from 1904 through the late 1920s, after which it transitioned to a heavy maintenance and overhaul facility on steam and later diesel locomotives running under the LVRR flag. The shop remained fully operational up to the Conrail takeover of LVRR and was stripped of anything valuable or reusable elsewhere and abandoned in 1977. The shops went largely unused for the next decade and were demolished in 1987-88.

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