The base leg of the Turner wye completes the curve to the west that brings the main line into the Turner yard area.  The wye is an original part of the Algoma Eastern Track arrangement at Turner and was in place until

John Morgan (1976)
This is the tail track of the wye as it looked in 1976.  There is little vegetation and most of the area is covered with the remnants of the ubiquitous coal piles that once covered most of the free areas in the Turner yard.

the end of operations, although by the 1970s it was no longer used for the purpose of turning trains, having been replaced by a balloon track around the west end of the yard.  The east leg of the wye and its tail track were a combined length of 1224 feet.  All but the first 95.5 feet of this track was the property of the Algoma Eastern Terminals.  The east leg was reached through a #9 spring switch controlled by an intermediate switch stand.  The west leg of the wye, 706.5 feet in length was accessed via a #8 rigid frog switch controlled by a high switch stand, while the tail track boasted a #9 spring switch controlled by a low switch stand.  The arrangement of the spring switches was such that equipment being turned entered the west leg of the wye and exited via the east leg.  

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	By simply turning around after taking the photo above the photographer captured the end of the Turner wye tail track.  Only a pile of old ties prevents any equipment using the wye from being washed the hard way.

In 1976, the tail track length was paced off by the writer and found to be about a locomotive and four cars in length.  There is some evidence to show that this may have been the result of an extension to the original tail track as early maps of Turner do not show the end of the tail track as close to the north channel as it was in 1976.