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B Tower and watchman's elevated shanty in view
For its size (1960 population 40,274), Elkhart, Indiana, is probably as unadulterated a railroad town as there is in the highly-developed industrial area comprised of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. It is, moreover, a one railroad town, with the Central…
Train no. 73
The blue-flagged 5411 gets another shot of grease at Elkhart while her engineer for the last lap to Chicago packs a few belongings into the seatbox. Notwithstanding the stop at Bryan, the 133 miles from Toledo were run off in 117 minutes for an…
Train no. 73 at Central Union Terminal
A last look at handsome Central Union Terminal finds J-3 no. 5411 in the final stages of preparation for departure on no. 73, an afternoon train from Cleveland to Chicago. Up front, a mechanical department laborer is disconnecting the grease gun air…
Looking at Panama Yard
On the west side of the footbridge, the scene includes a portion of the Panama yard in the foreground and (beyond the shanty) the hump yard, in which two U-class engines are working (at the time, this yard was devoted primarily to storage of grain…
Looking into Detroit Yard
The aforementioned Detroit yard is on the left, with the auto frames stacked in gondolas identifying train CD-1, a Cleveland-Detroit manifest receiving most of its traffic at Rockport Yard through which the Midland-Ross frame business is handled…
View east from footbridge
Not far west of the previous vantage point a footbridge crosses Airline Junction Yard, and this photograph and the following two were taken from the bridge. To the left of the main tracks on 3 Main is a Danbury extra, F7 units 1762-1763 with 99 empty…
Stanley Puller passing tri-color signals
The junction of the Cleveland-Chicago main line with the almost equally heavily-trafficked Detroit-Toledo branch is at Swan Creek, 1.3 miles west of Central Union Terminal. Swan Creek also governs movements to and from the east end of Airline…
Stanley Puller
This photograph was made facing west from Fassett Street and shows the end of the four-track territory referred to above. An Airline Junction-Stanley puller consisting of 70 empty boxcars is being routed from track 2 to track 4; at Oakdale, GP7 5628…
Train No. 35 passing Fassett Tower and semephore signal bridge
Little Fassett Street tower on the left is at the west end of a short stretch of four-track main line in East Toledo. It also controls movements between the main tracks and the northwest wye connection with the W&LE belt. This wye is visible here…
Train no. 46 passing Oakdale Interlocking Tower
A maintenance of way gang doing some hand surfacing in Oakdale interlocking stands back as big no. 6011 barrels past with no. 46, the Interstate Express. This train is primarily geared to the Chicago-Boston business, and after extensive switching at…
Two Hudsons doubleheading train no. 14
The rear end of no. 14's seventeen-car train is still threading its way out of Central Union Terminal as the two Hudsons up front nose onto the Maumee River bridge. Contrary to the Pennsylvania's custom of running its K-4s in tandem on heavy trains,…
Train no. 303
No. 303 leaves Toledo on this occasion behind J-1 no. 5389, one of the thirty Hudsons (no's. 5375-5405) which were assigned when new to the Big Four and which originally carried numbers 6600-6629. This train requires six hours and forty-five minutes…
Train no. 303, taking water
After Toledo, the next water stop for the 5391 will be at Bellefontaine, Ohio, roughly the halfway mark on the run to Cincinnati. The train is no. 303 out of Detroit, on which power is sometimes changed at Bellefontaine (if the engine happens to be…
Train no. 312
This activity in the rain at the west end of Central Union Terminal features J-1 no. 5266 heading no. 312, the day Cincinnati-Detroit train. Behind her are E8s 4088-4089 westbound on no. 35, a New York-Chicago train primarily devoted to head-end…
Train no. 14
Another look at the 6013 shows the big Niagara easing mail train no. 14 through the rain towards Broadway, preparatory to entering Central Union Terminal. On the rear of the 17-car train were the business cars of President William White and Vice…