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Train no. 473 taking water
Niagara 6009 gets a refill at Terre Haute on her way from Cleveland to Mattoon on mail-and-express no. 473. The sixteen-car train is cut behind the ninth car to allow traffic to pass on Seventh Street, at the far end of the platform. This picture was…
E&I extra south
Terre Haute is about 70 miles west of Indianapolis on the main line of the Illinois Division. By virtue of its population of 65,000 and its importance in manufacturing and as the commercial center for a coal-mining region, it would be a key point on…
E&I extra north
In its passage through Terre Haute enroute to the junction point with the main line just west of the depot, the E&I traverses the highly-industrialized southwest side of town and, in so doing, establishes the NYC in the healthy position it enjoys…
E&I extra north passing the depot
Up from Petersburg with 55 L&N hoppers of Gary coal, the 1970 blasts past the depot at Terre Haute on the last lap into the terminal at Duane. The rear end of the train should be coming off the E&I, rounding the curve which was visible in part in the…
Flipper' passing interlocking tower (on stilts)
A cut of 44 Gary coal trails the 2932 here as she shotguns her way through Terre Haute bound for Midland, 22 miles west on the main line and junction point of the latter with the Chicago-Cairo line. The C&EI tracks run parallel to the NYC in the…
Train no. 419
Since a picture of an Illinois Division train was not available, this shot of Indiana Division no. 419 (an Indianapolis-Chicago local, now discontinued) was inserted here to begin the Illinois Division portion of the Ohio-Illinois Division…
Train no. 405
Hill Yard is actually a group of yards with different names and functions scattered over a distance of about three miles. The main line skirts this far-flung and rather purposeless conglomeration from Beech Grove on the east to Belt crossing on the…
Double heading on train no. Springfield 91
The wye last mentioned in the preceding footnote is, for obvious reasons, dubbed the icehouse wye. In addition to yard cuts bound to and from Middle or East Hill and Brightwood, its principal users are the Springfield branch trains, namely the locals…
Train no. CC-1
The section of the Belt Railway west of Belt crossing is as busy or even busier than the section just shown east of the crossing. In the scene above, train CC-1, bound for Kankakee, is pulling out on this part of the Belt for the trip around town,…
Train no. 416
The tangent on the Cincinnati line between English Avenue and Belt crossing was the setting for this picture and the one following. On this stretch, eastbound passenger trains begin picking up the pace for the fast run to Shelbyville, and eastbound…
Train no. 416
Though she had doubtless had her moments of triumph, too, the 5291, shown here on no. 416 near English Avenue, was decrepit and despised in the days of her assignment to the Big Four. Needless to say, this short-winded old racer was not to be…
More steam than diesel, coal tower in background
The adjectives “gray", "dull", and "dreary” employed in the last footnote are perfectly suited to Shelby Street roundhouse and its environs. When in Indianapolis, the battered remnants of the NYC'S steam fleet come here for servicing and for whatever…
Front view, at coal tower
Even the bright Memorial Day sunshine could not dissipate the atmosphere of decay which casts an inevitable pall over Shelby Street. Weathered structures, rusting machinery, twisted rails, littered grounds - all combine to suggest that here is the…
Awaiting assignment at the terminal
Though Shelby Street is hardly the foreground an Indianapolis booster would choose for a photograph intended to lure travelers, it is a fact that a reasonable view of the city's downtown section is available from the tracks east of Leota Street. Of…
Train no. 405
In the waning light of a January afternoon in 1954, no. 405 is hustled into Indianapolis by PT-tendered J-3 no. 5413. The train is just coming onto Indianapolis Union tracks at College Avenue, about four city blocks west of Shelby Street (the…