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X west on Lake Line near James St.
The photographer had only to do an about-face after the passing of the drag pictured on the preceding page to get this shot of the NYC's no.2745, pulling out of DeWitt Yards with 74 high cars behind. The rear end of this train is just about abreast…
with other locomotives at the water column and coal tower
Outside the 28-stall roundhouse at Bellefontaine, a group of steam engines stands simmering in various stages of the cycle of between run activities. In a cluster and waiting to have their fires cleaned are, from left to right, an L-2, an H-6,…
Westbound mail and express leaving depot
Hudson 5423 leaves Utica in this scene, trailing 15 cars of westbound mail and express. Two weeks after the photograph was taken (on July 28, 1953), orders were issued to discontinue the use of J-class power in the Harmon-Buffalo territory in which…
Westbound freight using passenger main
Reading from right to left, the NYC's mainline track scheme as shown by this photograph goes as follows: track one, eastbound passenger; track two, westbound passenger; track three, westbound freight, and track four, eastbound freight. This train was…
Water Tank #5272 at Wayneport, NY
EB stopping to take water, 2 wood and 1 steel tanks, water column
Water column #4519 at North White Plains, NY
Last steam loco at North White Plains yard, Alco #8340 in view
Watchman's tower #4935, #5387 at Galion, OH
Train no. 433 passing tower
Wabash switcher pulling out of yard
From a point on the aforementioned south wye at South Anderson, the camera in this instance is trained on engine 6344 and her train, the Wabash local. The head brakeman has just thrown the switch at far right, lining the route for the north vye, over…
Valley Run, crossing guard in view
In the same location, but moving in the opposite direction, the eastbound Advance Valley Run is shown here pulling through downtown Springfield on its way to the yard, one mile east. The power is another L-3, no. 3058, and there are 42 cars. Once…
Valley Run
High Street, the main business thoroughfare of Springfield, crosses over the Sandusky Division tracks just east of the wye at Linden Avenue. This picture was made from the High Street bridge as the regular section of the Valley Run pulled up the…
Two Hudsons at coal tower
Two of the Central's symmetrical Hudson types, engines 5204 and 5270, are caught in an idle moment at the East Syracuse fueling station. Both are of the J-1 class and were built by Alco in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Since then they have been…
Turntable in view
This photograph is the first of a sequence of six referred to in the introduction and taken at Anderson in April of 1956. The scene at South Anderson roundhouse was sad but typical of such places after 'dieselitis' had set in - engines still under…
Trains 303 and X447
Taken shortly after the preceding picture and following the arrival of no. 303 from Detroit, Toledo, and Bellefontaine, this picture shows the two J-1s, the 5283 on no. 303 and the 5384 on X-447, lined up abreast on depot tracks one and two,…