by khecht
Was it visible from the NEC? If so, it was the Wilmington Shops.
Remember that there are two major Amtrak facilities in Delaware: the Wilmington locomotive shops, located in the Landlith neighborhood along the NEC a few miles NE of Wilmington station, and the Amtrak Bear Car Shops, a few miles south of the NEC, where access is via a non-electrified track that branches from the NEC at Davis interlocking just east of Newark, DE. The line continues south to allow Norfolk Southern to serve the Delmarva peninsula.
I have never been to the Bear location, but I know they store cars there, and though Wilmington does engine maintenance, they do store other equipment there, and I've seen plenty of Amfleets there.
Here are the two locations from the air:
Wilmington Shops (The yard closest to I-495 is the NS Edgemoor freight yard along the Shellpot branch, which allows freight to bypass downtown Wilmington and access the New Castle Secondary. The NEC is the northwesternmost tracks in this view.)
Bear Car Shops (Located along the NS Delmarva Secondary)
Remember that there are two major Amtrak facilities in Delaware: the Wilmington locomotive shops, located in the Landlith neighborhood along the NEC a few miles NE of Wilmington station, and the Amtrak Bear Car Shops, a few miles south of the NEC, where access is via a non-electrified track that branches from the NEC at Davis interlocking just east of Newark, DE. The line continues south to allow Norfolk Southern to serve the Delmarva peninsula.
I have never been to the Bear location, but I know they store cars there, and though Wilmington does engine maintenance, they do store other equipment there, and I've seen plenty of Amfleets there.
Here are the two locations from the air:
Wilmington Shops (The yard closest to I-495 is the NS Edgemoor freight yard along the Shellpot branch, which allows freight to bypass downtown Wilmington and access the New Castle Secondary. The NEC is the northwesternmost tracks in this view.)
Bear Car Shops (Located along the NS Delmarva Secondary)