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Brand new on train no. 135
The pair of EMD E-8 units above, brand new when this was taken, have wriggled through the profusion of curves, crossovers, diamonds, and diverging routes which separate the six tracks east of tower 50 from the double-tracked straightaway to Cleveland…
Train no. 52 under the Elk St. truss bridge
This picture, like the one preceding it, was taken from Perry Street bridge, but looking west rather than east. The main attraction here is s-] engine 6020, eastbound on track 2 with the six cars of no. 52, a Cleveland-New York 'through local'. To…
View south towards FO Yard, DL&W truss bridge in background
Looking west from Elk Street, we see the west end of Buffalo yard (eleven stub tracks here), bounded by the fill and bridge of the Lackawanna, whose double track runs to the depot down by the waterfront. The drawbridge in raised position carries the…
Job 20, speeder and searchlight signal mast in foreground
There is a considerable expanse of marshland extending in from Lake Erie south of the Buffalo River. It has been filled in a great deal to accommodate railroad rights-of-way and yards, grain elevators, industrial plants, and urban areas. The NYC…
View east includes several parallel railroads
Tifft Street viaduct crosses the aforementioned marsh area at about its midpoint, and makes a fine vantage point from which to observe the varied railroad activities below. Those are the NYC mains in the foreground, and this is the stretch between BC…
Train ON-2 in background
The marshes have been filled in almost completely here to support Seneca yard. This view of the main line, the yard, and the Maintenance of Way Department facilities in the foreground was taken looking west from Ridge Road overpass. On the eastbound…
Train A/BC-3 leaving Seneca Yard
The north window of tower Daffords this view of the main tracks, on the far right, and the converging tracks of Seneca yard. Three unit diesel 1786-2438-1787 is doubling the head 41 cars of A/BC-3, a drag which later left with 36 loads and 69…
View west from cab of Job 20, Lehigh Valley and PRR truss bridges in view
The caboose of Job 20, standing next to tower D on track 3, was the vantage point for this shot. The middle siding and tracks 4, 1, and 2 are to the left, and the weed-covered track heading up on the fill at the right is a connection which crosses…
Train no. 137 passing under Lehigh Valley and PRR truss bridges
Mail and express run no. 137 sports a doubleheader of tremendous speed potential, S-1 6017 and J-1 5263, as it quickens its warmup pace near the west end of the Buffalo Division preparatory to entering the Erie Division racetrack at Bayview. This…
Train no. 10
Chicago Buffalo overnighter no. 10 streaks into the straightaway at Blasdell, its J-3 whistling raucously for Milestrip Road. The twelve-car train is on high-speed main 2, while in front of it is freight main 6 and behind it are mains 1, 4, 3, and 5,…
Train VEG
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…
Train DHQ
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…
Train first LS-1
We now shift all the way from the western extreme of the Buffalo Division at Bayview to its eastern limit at tower 46, and begin a second picture-journey westward, this time over the Gardenville branch. The track layout around tower 46 is complex,…
Train fourth LS-1
Shortly after the preceding picture was made, the camera catches A/LS-1 from the west window of the tower. This train, a poor relation compared to 1/LS-1, will have its 42 loads and 54 empties humped at Gardenville (manifests such as the forwarder…
Gardenville extra
This section of the Gardenville branch, photographed from Rowley Road bridge, is about a mile west of tower 46. The train is an extra from DeWitt, pulled by Alcos 1043-3323. It consists of 65 empty gons and hoppers, which will be classified at…