Beech Grove Shops
The Beech Grove Shops is a railway maintenance facility in
Beech Grove, Indiana, outside Indianapolis. Beech Grove is Amtrak's primary maintenance facility.[1]
It also contains a very large freight yard.
History
The shops were originally constructed in 1904–1908 by the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis Railway (the "Big Four"), servicing a network stretching across the Midwest into Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The facility was used as the company's repair shop for steam locomotives and passenger and freight cars.[1]
The Big Four was acquired by the
Penn Central Transportation in 1968 when the NYC merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Penn Central declared bankruptcy in 1970.[1] Amtrak purchased the facility from the bankrupt Penn Central in April 1975.[3][4][5]
On September 20, 2002, an
F2 tornado hit the shops, damaging Coach Shop 3, which was going to be torn down after the tornado; it had been used to overhaul Superliner passenger cars until 2000.[citation needed
]
In the early hours of May 2, 2021, two storage buildings on the site were destroyed by a fire.[6]
Gallery
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AmtrakP42'sunder repair at Beech Grove
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Damaged Amtrak P42 #8 at Beech Grove after a collision with aNorfolk Southernfreight in 2007.
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Amtrak equipment at Beech Grove shops.
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The shops in the 1980s
References
- ^ a b c "Beech Grove shops- Amtrak: History of America's Railroad". Amtrak. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
- Amtrak NewsAugust 1, 1980 page 10
- ^ Beech Grove Purchase Gets Green Light Amtrak News March 15, 1975 pages 1, 8
- ^ Miracle at Beech Grove Railway Age February 1985 pages 53, 56
- ^ Amtrak (August 27, 2012). "Beech Grove shops". Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ^ "News photos: Fire destroys buildings at Amtrak's Beech Grove shops (updated)". Trains. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
External links
Media related to Beech Grove Shops at Wikimedia Commons
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