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4-6-4 #5453 at Cincinnati, OH
On Union Terminal ready track
Train first SY-2
Greensburg, 62 miles west of Cincinnati and 47 miles east of Indianapolis, is the operational midpoint of the Indiana Division main line between those cities. As a steam terminal, it had water, sand, a coal dock, an ash pit, and a single-stall…
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. 419
Indianapolis-Chicago local no. 419 - opposite number to the train just pictured - leaves Lebanon behind the 5437, sister to the 5441, In the background here are two landmarks which (if not as obviously as grain elevators) exude a midwestern flavor --…
Train no. CC-1
With the caboose markers 69 cars back just about clear of Lebanon, the engineer on manifest no. 95 'widens on her' for the resumption of normal progress westward. 'Her' is L-2 no. 2877, and she was undoubtedly flexing her iron-horse sinews in…
Train no. 416
Number 416 leaves a sweeping vista of midwest farmland behind as it! approaches Lebanon from the west behind PT-tendered J-1 no. 5269. Although this train was not scheduled to stop at Lebanon, its wheels were in the grip of a heavy service…
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 no. 419 at depot, water column in view
In this scene at Lafayette depot, the 5402 starts away with the seven cars of no. 419, the westbound local. The passenger and freight stations at Lafayette are operated jointly with the Nickel Plate, whose main tracks are shown in the picture. To…
Train no. 81
Number 81, a pickup run from Indianapolis to Kankakee, eases through the depot at Lafayette behind L-2 no. 2847. The train continued across the Wabash River bridge, just west of the depot, then stopped after about 35 of its 59 cars had gone by. This…
Train No. 3
With her classic profile outlined against a bright spring sky, J-1 no. 5403 wheels the eight-car 'Riley' smartly up the hill at West Lafayette. The observation-lounge car is just coming off the curve which winds past the Lafayette depot and across…
Extra west
Up the hill and around the next curve from West Lafayette is an uncluttered location known to the Nickel Plate as Summit. Despite its Dame, it is not at the top of the grade out of Lafayette; it is merely where the maximum rate of ascent of 55 feet…
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…