IORY - Delta, OH

[rail_watcher]

I was down in Delta over the weekend and finally made time to drive around and explore the IORY. I noticed that along the south side of the NS Chicago Line, from County Road 10, there appears to be new track being laid to the east, going towards the IORY yard. Are they extending their yard, or is something else going in there?

[redside20]

Yes what your seeing is the rebirth of the little yard that served as an exchange or swap yard all those years ago with the rebuilding of the yard. Most of stub tracks were so bad for those years the iory put them out of service and along with relaying track for the part that ns or gtw tore out in 1989-91 being put back in except for the lead that lead back out to the wabash because theres nothing their nowadays unfortunately as we know it. but at the least the yard gets a new lease on life as funds that were granted five years ago are just now recently been distributed.

[rail_watcher]

Yes what your seeing is the rebirth of the little yard that served as an exchange or swap yard all those years ago with the rebuilding of the yard. Most of stub tracks were so bad for those years the iory put them out of service and along with relaying track for the part that ns or gtw tore out in 1989-91 being put back in except for the lead that lead back out to the wabash because theres nothing their nowadays unfortunately as we know it. but at the least the yard gets a new lease on life as funds that were granted five years ago are just now recently been distributed.

Awesome! What businesses in Delta does IORY do switching for? I’m assuming NS so does some of them?

[AARR]

Check out the Wiki for the complete list: https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Indiana_%26_Ohio

The Andersons Metamora Grain Elevator Covered Hoppers
Nova Steel Delta Structural Steel Tubing Steel Coil Cars/Gondolas
Fulton County Processing Delta Steel Processing Steel Coil Cars/Gondolas
BlueScope Recycling Delta Scrap Metal & Anthracite Dust Transload Gondolas/Covered Hoppers Formerly MetalX.
North Star BlueScope Steel Delta Steel Mill Steel Coil Cars/Gondolas Jointly served with NS. Inbound metal scrap and pig iron and outbound steel coils.
Pretium Leipsic Plastic Containers Covered Hoppers Formerly Patrick Products.
Silgan Plastics Ottawa Rigid Plastic Containers Covered Hoppers
Steel Technologies Ottawa Steel Processing Steel Coil Cars

They also switch the ADBF in Riga and CN in Flat Rock interchanges.

[chapmaja]

Are they going to be reinstalling access between the IORY yard and NS or just extending the stub tracks father west in the yard?

[MSchwiebert]

I've seen nothing to indicate that the NS/I&O connection is going back in. There's not really a need for it either.  

Are they going to be reinstalling access between the IORY yard and NS or just extending the stub tracks father west in the yard?

[rail_watcher]

Does anyone know their latest schedule for the Delta crews run up to Flat Rock and back? Also, a buddy of mine saw them using two of the new GE’s on that run recently.