Location: Kalamazoo, MI - South Yard (LSMS)
South Yard was a LSMS/ NYC yard located at MP 60.4, two and a half miles south of the Michigan Central between Gibson and Portage.
Notes
Call sign was "DK". It also had a water station for locomotives. The yard had a 150 car capacity.
Time Line
1915. It was staffed 12 hoiurs per day, had a yard and a 57 car passing track.
1984. Under Conrail ownership, the yard had three tracks between Cork and Inkster streets. [ZTS]
2023. The yard no longer exists, however their is a major gravel-aggregagte operation to the east of the former yard site. [GMAP]
Location: Kalamazoo, MI - South Yard (LSMS)
South Yard was a LSMS/ NYC yard located at MP 60.4, two and a half miles south of the Michigan Central between Gibson and Portage.
Notes
Call sign was "DK". It also had a water station for locomotives. The yard had a 150 car capacity.
Time Line
1915. It was staffed 12 hoiurs per day, had a yard and a 57 car passing track.
1984. Under Conrail ownership, the yard had three tracks between Cork and Inkster streets. [ZTS]
2023. The yard no longer exists, however their is a major gravel-aggregagte operation to the east of the former yard site. [GMAP]
