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Old CCC&StL along Cuyahoga River, switchtender shanty in view
This scene shows the former Big Four tracks as they wind along the Cuyahoga River and cross Superior Avenue on their way from Front Street (out of sight in the background, about half a mile north) to a junction with the Cleveland Union Terminal line…
Oklahoma track at Mill Creek
The first series of photographs taken out on the open road are on the Indiana Division, and are arranged in sequence from Cincinnati to Kankakee, save for a brief side-trip to South Anderson. To introduce this series, four views of the Cincinnati…
Opposite view from Oklahoma track at Mill Creek
With relation to the scene shown on the preceding page, this view is in almost the opposite direction. In the background, of course, is the Ohio River, flowing from left to right. The main tracks in the the foreground are, from front to back, those…
Riverside Yard
Three-tenths of a mile west of the aforementioned Storrs Junction sits King Tower, controlling the interlocking which governs movements in and out of the east end of Riverside Yard. This picture was taken from a highway bridge just west of the tower.…
Mill Creek Yard
The commentary accompanying this picture and the one following will attempt to show the rhyme and reason of the tortuous NYC trackage in the Mill Creek area of downtown Cincinnati (a section said to contain one of the most complex tangles of railroad…
Belt Crossing, #1769, #2455, #5017 in the background
One of the busiest junctions on the Belt Railway - and therefore one of the businest in Indianapolis - is Belt crossing, where the Indiana Division main line from Cincinnati crosses the Belt, and also connects with it by means of two wyes. This…
Looking west - main line Baldwin pulling solid coal in view. Searchlight signal bridge over 9 racks, many puzzle switches in background
Here is mainline activity in East Buffalo, viewed looking east from Bailey Avenue bridge. The loaded hoppers in the foreground are some of the 94 cars of XN-4, the rear end of which is still in the Stock yard where the train was made up. Led by…
View west from cab of Job 20, Lehigh Valley and PRR truss bridges in view
The caboose of Job 20, standing next to tower D on track 3, was the vantage point for this shot. The middle siding and tracks 4, 1, and 2 are to the left, and the weed-covered track heading up on the fill at the right is a connection which crosses…
PRR diamond
The position-light signals identify the three-track railroad here as the Pennsylvania. The double track is the NYC, and the location is Gardenville Junction, which is approximately the midpoint of the Gardenville branch (the mainline connection at…
trackage at Springfield, MA
Elevated view of interlocking west of depot
signals #5312 at W. 30th St., Indianapolis, IN
Train no. 405 approaching tri-color signal bridge
through truss bridge #5452 at Shelbyville, IN
Train no. 405
Wye and depot under Henry Hudson bridge
Henry Hudson bridge frames the main line, the swing bridge on the 30th Street Branch, and a section of the Palisades, across the Hudson River in New Jersey. A mail shuttle run from Harmon to the 29th Street postal building heads across the swing…
Wye, DV tower, depot, and swing bridge from Henry Hudson bridge
This panorama shows the Spuyten Duyvil layout to good advantage: station in the foreground on the main line, tower and swing bridge in the immediate background on the 30th Street Branch, connecting wye at center, and Hudson River and Palisades for…
W. 72nd Street yard looking south
The operating terminal on the 30th Street Branch is the classification yard at 72nd Street, although the Branch runs considerably further south on Manhattan Island (to St. John's Park Terminal when this picture was taken; now, just to Bank Street,…