Jeremy, the Historical Aerials site (http://historicaerials.com/) has 1959 aerial photos of Sandusky, and although the tracks came out a couple years before, you can still see pretty plainly where the tracks ran southeast of the wye in Westpark. You can also overlay a 2012 aerial photo of the area over the 1959 aerial and it's even more amazing how much of the wye and other features are still in place.
I had the opportunity to see a print very similar to Mr. Bedell's a couple months ago, and I was amazed to see what the actual track structure east of the wye had looked like. By the time I was born, most of the sidings that the Pere Marquette had had were long gone, and I had been completely unaware that there had been a turntable and engine house in the neighborhood I'd grown up in (where Morgan Street is today)!
Thank you to Mr. Bedell for sharing your images of the wye in Sandusky.
Charles W.
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