Re: (erielack) 'NK' Target - Mahoning Division (2)

["Rich Behrendt" <rbehrendt_@_columbus.rr.com>]

Thanks to Walter and Steve for the interesting look at NK - how far west 
from Center St. was this location Steve?

I continue to find it amazing at the amount of physical plant there was for 
both the railroads and Republic Steel, and today,  the later is long gone 
(wouldn't know that a hugh Republic Steel plant stood at what used to stand 
on the south side of the B&O/NK, which was actually on the west of Center 
St.

Great stuff! Thanks!

Rich Behrendt
ELHS #384
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Subject: Re: (erielack) 'NK' Target - Mahoning Division


> Walt
>
> Thanks for the memories about "The Target."
>
> It was still in service when I started in June of 1965.  The women 
> operators
> were all gone by then.  The last one was Millie Mays who worked  the 
> Operator
> Clerk's job in the DY office in Youngstown.  Millie did the  Operator and
> Dispatcher scheduling and payroll for the Chief Train Dispatcher,  John P 
> Short.
>
> NK was the first place that I qualified and worked.  I was supposed to
> qualify at Valley Street, but the Operator on duty 1st trick, Fleet K 
> Bowker,  said
> he was not training any more operators.  He trained all that he was 
> training
> in his time, so Mildred Mays assigned me to NK Target to post with Jake
> Gorman.  (Actually I was unofficially qualified at SN Jct, having spent 
> many days
> and nights there during high school.")
>
> NK Target had no Dispatcher's phone line for any of the railroads that you
> worked with except EL.  None for the B&O, PRR or NYC.  It had  block lines 
> to
> the various towers and yard offices.
>
> There were no approaches (indicators) on any of the railroads except EL so
> you did not know what was coming on those roads.  The B&O crossed the  PRR 
> at
> NK Target and I believe that it was the most active move that  required a
> target to be changed.  The B&O would shove up from  Hazelton (B&O 
> spelling) to the
> freight house and produce terminal.   They would show up and blow the 
> whistle.
> You would then run a release ( a  clock-timer device) and when that was
> complete, two, three, four minutes,  whatever it was, you could then 
> manually
> throw the target for the B&O to  proceed.  More than once on second trick 
> I did
> that, only to stop the PRR's  train from Cleveland to Pittsburgh....was it 
> the
> Steeler?
>
> There were three targets at NK Target.  I forget the details of who  went
> where other than the B&O crossing the PRR.
>
> Interesting sidelight at NK Target;  Right behind The Target was the
> Republic Steel Railroad that ran from Hazelton Furnace to the rolling mill 
> in
> downtown Youngstown.  There was a steady stream of trains on the RISCO 
> line.  It
> was 42" gauge, and there were about 7 or 8 large Plymouth  locomotives 
> with side
> rods, I believe the models were 45 Ton KC, 65 Ton KC,  etc.  The RISCO 
> line
> dove under the PRR in a tunnel right behind NK  Target.
>
> SMT
>
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