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Train no. 9
Far more typical of the NYC than any action provided by S-ls is the clattering roar of Hudson 5250 as she streaks through East Syracuse with the fourteen head-end cars of no. 9. Twenty-six years of service and her owner's preoccupation in 1953 with…
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. 416 passing Vine interlocking tower
With her engineer hunched forward and outward in traditional fashion, the 5437 blasts out of Shelbyville at the head of no. 416, enroute from Indianapolis to Cincinnati. The pavement is none other than Main Street, and the building is Vine tower. The…
Train no. 416
Approaching Indianapolis from the west, the Indiana Division main line turns due south in the vicinity of West 60th Street and, in a long tangent, runs through open country to West 16th Street before it finally curves eastward again towards the…
Train no. 414, target signal in view
As the main line of the Indiana Division heads northwestward across Indiana from Indianapolis, the countryside and the towns begin to look progressively more midwestern. The topography levels and the groves of trees get scarcer as the railroad…
Train no. 414
Lafayette, a flourishing city of some 35,000 persons located in the upper middle section of the Wabash River valley, is about halfway between Indianapolis and Kankakee on the Indiana Division main line. It is the operational midpoint of the line,…
Train no. 379
This picture begins the fourth and final series, illustrating the section of the Buffalo Division known as the Niagara Falls branch, which extends 27 miles from tower 50 in Buffalo to tower 65 in Suspension Bridge. Here is engine 5238 leading a…
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. 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. 3, west bound 'Riley' taking water
The 5421 gets a refill as she pauses at Lafayette depot on no. 3, the westbound 'Riley'. The 18,000-gallon capacity of her PT tank enabled her to make the 173-mile run from Cincinnati to Lafayette for water, whereas an engine with conventional tender…
Train first 41
The Illinois Division headquarters are, very fittingly, located in the depot at Mattoon. This windswept town of 17,500 population, smack in the middle on the central Illinois prairie, is at near dead-center on the main line between Indianapolis and…
Train DHQ
There is usually enough activity to be seen from Bayview tower to satisfy the average rail enthusiast, whether he looks at the Erie Division from the west window (as here), the Buffalo Division from the east window, or the Nickel Plate from the back…
Right front view
Representing the ultimate development of the 4-6-4 type on the New York Central, J-3 no. 5437 poses for her picture at Shelby street, also in March of 1956. She was slated for retirement at the time, having performed her last duties several days…
Ready to leave depot on train 1st no. 9, 2nd no. 9
Here is action in Syracuse depot as seen from the diesel of the eastbound Empire State Express. These two J engines are panting like racehorses as they prepare to leave with the two sections of mail and express train no. 9. The 5204 in the foreground…
In front of water tanks
This portrait of the 5431 at rest displays most of the characteristics of later NYC steam power - drop coupler, pump shields, flared headlight, Worthington feedwater heater and pump, Baker valve gear, disc drivers, offset generator, and turret, to…