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LV Symbol freight SJ-2 behind 4 EMD F units, dead 4-8-4s in background
This is the same scene taken eight months later in the early summer of 1949. Symbol freight SJ-2 is shown arriving behind four new 1500horsepower EMD units, numbered 526-527-511-510. Usual steam-hauled consist of this train was 70-80 loads; on this…
Alco switcher assisting a 4 unit diesel and a 4-8-4
Again in the summer of 1949, the preponderance of diesels is evident here;a bad-order car is being set out of symbol freight BP-2 (a Buffalo to Philadelphia train running via the Reading from Bethlehem, Pa.), necessitating the use of diesel Switcher…
LV train BP-2
Here is the BP-2 of the previous photograph, with its 107 cars ready to highball down the Susquehanna Valley for Coxton. The diesel units, no's.512-513-523-522,will do most of the pulling and all of the braking enroute, while the steam engine is…
Steam Freight Train at East Syracuse, NY
Train MC-7 by inspection shed, Pacemaker boxcars up front
4-8-2 P&E #50 at Peoria, IL
ex #2615
4-8-2 #2853 at Bellefontaine, OH
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Coming into the eastbound receiving yard
This complex of trackage at the west end of DeWitt yard, known as the 'puzzles', has a long-standing and well-deserved reputation for congestion. Bridge Street in East Syracuse very conveniently crosses the tracks here, affording this view east…
Looking west from Bridge Street, coal tower in view
Facing west from Bridge Street, we get this view of the track layout just west of the puzzles at the west end of Devitt Yard, High-speed mains 1 and 2 are in the lower left corner. The coal dock is obvious, and behind and to the right of it is the…
E7A #4005 at Chicago, IL
Parlor-ob on train no. 64, 'Mercury' at Lakefront Station, front of #5434 in view