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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…
The S-1
Newspaper full page announcement from the American Locomotive Co.
Right front 3/4 view
Here, at Shelby Street, backed in on top of the 3148 on a 'dead' track, is the last of the largest - S-1 4-8-4 no. 6015. This engine remained in service almost a year after the retirement of her twenty-five sisters. The reason for this oddity was…
Passenger Station #6009 at Terre Haute, IN
Niagara on passenger train taking water
M&E train no. 43
Number 43 is shown again, this time leaving Rochester in the clutches of another S-1, no. 6003. When this picture was taken in 1953, headquarters for the Syracuse Division were in the station at Syracuse, but in 1959 they were moved to Rochester,…
M&E train no. 43
The mighty 6020 is shown here as she starts the 15 cars of mainline local no. 43 out of Newark. The Pennsylvania branch between Elmira and Sodus Point is visible in the background on the left; it bridges the NYC in the vicinity of the rear car of no.…
Grimy 6014 standing proud
Although the S-ls performed very well when used in freight service, they spent most of their time and established their excellent reputations hauling passengers, mail, and express. Here is the 6014 being hostled towards the coal dock at DeWitt after…
Engine Service at Harmon, NY
Various shots in the roundhouse
Crew at Harmon, NY
William Thompson, Engineman.
Crew
Engineer A.B. Anderson, holding brake valve on Niagara #6015.
Close up of BoxPox drivers and valve gear components
No need to identify the owner of those sleek rods and nighty drivers. Her principal specifications are as follows: class, S-1b; cylinders, 25x32 in.; drivers, 79. in.; pressure, 275 lbs.; tractive effort, 62,500 lbs.; weight, 471,000 lbs.; and…
At the coal tower
The great bulk of S-1 no. 6018 reduces the dominance of the massive DeWitt coal dock. There was nothing revolutionary about the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement in 1945 when this class came into existence, nevertheless it created somewhat of a stir because it…
4-8-4, 4-6-4 #6020, #5402 at Collinwood, Cleveland, OH
Last steam passenger engines out of Collinwood house on ready track about to leave
4-8-4 Timken #1111
Timken demonstration locomotive with 12 wheel tender-Fuel 21 tons
