03-24-2013, 09:57 AM
This part of the Flats hasn't been 'hip' for a good thirty years! I should add that the cereal plant area was brilliantly illuminated with that harsh yellowish lighting, and on a cold winter night the steam lines and switching and trucks made for quite a dramatic scene. Until the mid-'70's B&O had a small trans-loading yard located about four blocks to the northeast between the river and Columbus Road, with a spur that diagonally crossed and then ran south parallel to Columbus Road. It crossed the cereal plant lead at grade and served, IIRC, Cleveland Waste Paper. All the B&O track is long gone. Where the NYC stub yard was located, Flats Industrial now has two stub tracks, but I'm not certain how or if they are used.