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With DFA-6b #5017

With DFB-2g #2445, DFA-2d #1650

Train No. 59.

Train No. 59.

Again we are looking out of the west window of Bayview tower, as we did fifteen pages back. This time we see NC-1, the Central's crack New York-Chicago merchandiser, swinging onto track 1, the westbound high iron of the Erie Division. Such hotshots…

The west end of the Gardenville branch is at Bayview, where the two branch tracks are assimilated into the four mainline tracks leading out of Buffalo. Actually, the branch and the mainline have by that time been running alongside one another for…

There is usually enough activity to be seen from Bayview tower to satisfy the average rail enthusiast, whether he looks at the Erie Division from the west window (as here), the Buffalo Division from the east window, or the Nickel Plate from the back…

The new order in motive-power, here represented by EMD units 1653-1654, dominates the setting of the previous photograph in this shot, taken in the same spot about an hour later. The train is E-12, the eastbound pickup freight between Erie and…