page_title: Conway Yard
section_title: Current operation
hierarchical_section_title: Conway Yard / Current operation
caption_attribution_description: English: Overview of Norfolk Southern's large Conway Yard, seen looking southwest from Fourth Avenue south of Fifteenth Street in Freedom, Pennsylvania, United States. In the foreground, a truck heads northbound on Ohio River Boulevard, Pennsylvania Route 65.
context_page_description: Conway Yard is a major rail yard located in the boroughs of Conway and Freedom, Pennsylvania, 22 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, along the Ohio River. It was the largest freight yard in the world from 1956 until 1980. It is currently owned by Norfolk Southern and one of the largest yards in the United States.
context_section_description: Of the aforementioned PRR yards, Conway is the only remaining large operation. NS processes 90,000 to 100,000 cars per month (as of 2003). The site currently occupies 568 acres, with 181 miles (291 km) of track and a storage capacity of over 11,000 cars.
  As of 2012, the yard employed 1,400 rail workers, with 60 to 80 trains traveling through it daily.
caption: Overview from a Freedom residential neighborhood
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