Three yards, one name
Three carriers inside two miles
The North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics records a yard here under the operator KRL, 1.34 miles south-west of the middle of this borough.
It is not, however, the only one with that name. Three yards inside about two miles carry it in the same rail network data: this one under KRL, a second 0.93 miles away under CSX Transportation, and a third under the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad.
New Castle itself is a separate and larger city next to both boroughs. So a truck that worked “the yard” here could have worked any of three.
The posted crossings start 0.40 miles out
Those short distances are the point of this place. Within 10 miles the National Bridge Inventory records 237 structures, of which 10 are posted for load and one more is coded as open but would be posted — five maintained by Lawrence County, three by townships, two by boroughs and one by the state.
The nearest is 0.40 miles north-east, a county bridge rating 40.9 US tons operating, which a loaded truck clears. Tighter ones sit further out: 8.28 miles east at 16.0 tons and 9.27 miles east at 13.0, both of which take a part load rather than a full one.
Lawrence County maintains 29 bridges in the whole National Bridge Inventory and posts 6 of them. That is a county share resting on a small denominator, so read the circle rather than the rate.
A limestone ring, and the crews get bigger as you go east
Those lanes run out to stone in every direction. The Shenango Mine is 2.29 miles south-east with 11 people and Moscipan 2.32 miles south with 2; Wampum is 4.30 miles south with 5 and its plant 5.72 miles south.
West of here the Bessemer Quarry Plant sits 6.44 miles out with 7 people and the McQuiston Mine 6.45 miles with 3. East is where the crews grow: the Lacko Mine 6.70 miles with 13 and Princeton 8.01 miles with 25, both a good deal larger than anything immediately south of the borough.
Two military sites listed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics sit inside a short drive as well, a readiness centre 1.13 miles east and a maintenance activity 3.13 miles north-west, and the Conway yards are about 22 miles south. It is a lot of different work inside one commute.
Short lanes with a lot of loading in them wear a truck differently from a highway life. The clutch, driveline and hoist see more cycles per mile, and on a truck that ran a posted route the springs and frame usually tell you before the odometer does.
- With the yards 1.34 miles out and the Shenango Mine 2.29 miles away, plenty of trucks in this borough never left Lawrence County.
- It is parked past a posted bridge.Not an obstacle.
Between the Shenango Mine 2.29 miles south-east and the Lacko Mine 6.70 miles east they turn up steadily.