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If Tim hadn’t suggested it, I wouldn’t have thought it was Columbus. It took a minute to locate Franklin Flouring Mill. Thank goodness for a great local library collection and the city’s digitization of early Baist real estate maps. In short, this is a PRR (Panhandle) yard, though the N&W flyover bridge is just visible in the distance. Otherwise, I can’t make out any N&W track. 

Here’s the location: 
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MMyKqt1snyQbuCWC7

The photo is looking northeast along the Panhandle yard, with the Panhandle's freight house tracks joining from the right. The N&W’s freight house tracks ran parallel to the PRR’s, immediately to the East. The lead would be behind the Franklin Mill facility. From there, the N&W lead wandered parallel along the south side of the the Panhandle main until reaching the flyover, then wandered along the north side of the Panhandle yard to the CA&C, then north alongside CA&C to Joyce Avenue Yard (the N&W’s Columbus terminal yard)

In this 1910 Baist Real Estate map, the Franklin Mill is more or less in the center of the screen (if the link works correctly)
https://columbus.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=0313a230a12a491683e00eb5132dfb72&extent=-83.0037,39.9705,-82.9881,39.9776

And here’s a bit of information  about the mill: 
https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/8689/rec/1

Matt Goodman
Columbus, Ohio

> On Nov 20, 2023, at 7:48 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> I'd say Columbus, since it's in Franklin County.
> 
> Tim Hensley
> 
> On Monday, November 20, 2023 at 05:19:47 PM EST, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> 
> Anybody recognize this 1915 yard scene or know where the Franklin Flouring Mills was located:
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> https://www.ebay.com/itm/364586376675?hash=item54e30a9de3:g:4yoAAOSwoHVlWRDh&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwChw%2FNeiLgUwpxgTznOr0tGWF%2F85FT38zi0laBmUX05IGc6tW7A0xpaRuimG1lqIDzbYVo1%2BMK2SH7mhjBn17j5VQiQ2X9R2oVsZDpd8gqKKJ8JJuz2pNJRCoa8MBzRgZnL%2B3EBS%2FkzMj2q0JKB%2Brd5%2BYg51iE006Fe%2FFkzggr694KkzaFfKoZBrTISYkaTeyHvYijE2a7g4PcC696F%2FWpwY1DiVgt0rW7uD6AMLt4IlCMrTWw2pxMh4PiAHp9P%2Fpw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5K8tPv8Yg
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> Thanks,
> Jim Cochran
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