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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,…

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Here is unadulterated steam activity at the west end of DeWitt in February of 1950. Left to right: engine 2719 departs with fifty empty hoppers enroute to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Southport (Elmira), N. Y.; engine 3134 waits for a signal to back…

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Whether or not a person is readily fascinated by the steam locomotive, he is more apt to be impressed by a cluster of these dirty brutes around a roundhouse than by an equal number of diesels at a service station. Indeed, he is compelled to be…

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Leota street divides the coal dock and storage area of the engine terminal at Shelby Street from the rest of the facilities - the water plugs, ash pits, machine shop, power house, turntable, and the roundhouse itself. Except where it is crossed by…

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On turntable

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