On the west side of the footbridge, the scene includes a portion of the Panama yard in the foreground and (beyond the shanty) the hump yard, in which two U-class engines are working (at the time, this yard was devoted primarily to storage of grain…
The aforementioned Detroit yard is on the left, with the auto frames stacked in gondolas identifying train CD-1, a Cleveland-Detroit manifest receiving most of its traffic at Rockport Yard through which the Midland-Ross frame business is handled…
Not far west of the previous vantage point a footbridge crosses Airline Junction Yard, and this photograph and the following two were taken from the bridge. To the left of the main tracks on 3 Main is a Danbury extra, F7 units 1762-1763 with 99 empty…