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Train no. 43
As it bears down on tower 46 at 85 MPH, no. 43, the semi-local 'South Shore Express', is about one mile inside the eastern limit of the Buffalo Division. Tower 46, which controls interlockings at seven different locations, is principally the means of…
Train BH-2
Looking west towards Buffalo from the Harlem Road viaduct, one sees the beginning of the pocket-yard complex which parallels the main line almost continuously from this point west to TO (Buffalo yard), approximately five miles. The train in the…
Looking east into VI Yard
Here is the west end of that section of East Buffalo pocket yards whose east end was shown in the preceding picture. In the center and at right is VI yard, a 19-track pocket whose principal function is handling road freights off the Syracuse Division…
Looking northeast into Valley Yard
Looking northward along the aforementioned DL&W fill (this was taken from the same spot as was the preceding photo), one sees a jumble of curving tracks which appear to the uninitiated eye to wander aimlessly, and which indeed typify the lack of…
VI Yard, boxcar P&LE #36374 in view
The photographer was still perched on DL&W property for this undertaking. NYC mains 2,1,3, and 4 are in the foreground, across Broadway. Beyond are the west throat of VI yard - the cut of cars is on track 1 - and the West Shore connecting tracks.…
Looking west - main line Baldwin pulling solid coal in view. Searchlight signal bridge over 9 racks, many puzzle switches in background
Here is mainline activity in East Buffalo, viewed looking east from Bailey Avenue bridge. The loaded hoppers in the foreground are some of the 94 cars of XN-4, the rear end of which is still in the Stock yard where the train was made up. Led by…
Train no. 122
This is part of the view west from Bailey Avenue bridge. In the foreground on main 8, engine 5430 is heading the 30 cars of no. 122, a mail and express run to New York, this train will be switched onto track 2 at tower 47, but right now the dwarf is…
Looking from Central Terminal Tower at train XN-2
The sixteen-story tower rising from Central Terminal affords an excellent view of the trackage of this vital section of the Buffalo Division. Here is the scene looking east. To identify the locality in relation to those previously shown, we can pick…
Looking south from Central Terminal Tower towards stockyardsat train XN-2
The view south from the tower includes, most notably, the long station concourse, which extends out over thoroughfares 3 and 4 and station tracks: 11 through 26, counting outward. There are seven platforms, and the tracks can accommodate from 11 to…
Looking from Central Terminal Tower at train TH&B train no. 385
The weather is sunny and mild at 4:36 PM on an August afternoon. Looking down at the west end of the terminal from our vantage point, we see (on track 23) the departure of no. 383 for Toronto, with its red-trimmed, gold-lettered CPR Pacific, no.…
Looking from Central Terminal Tower at departing train no. 351
No. 351, the Detroit section of the 'Empire', has just left the terminal - its westward progress is faintly discernible in the upper right corner - and the befogged atmosphere testifies to the combustion of its J-1 engine. Immersed in the murk is the…
Train X-35 and train no. 379
At Fillmore Street, the extreme west end of the terminal interlocking, the leads from Lindy and Curtiss Street yards converge and join the mains, which total six here and are numbered, from right to left, 6-5-2-1-4-3. The multiple trackage makes it…
Train no. 137
The six-track main extending west from the terminal divides at tower 50, one and three-tenths miles from tower 49. In the interim, it is bisected by a single-track line of the Pennsylvania, which runs from their yards to their freighthouse and sundry…
Double headed train no. 122 under both semaphore and searchlight signal bridge
This steam-wreathed Niagara, in charge of mail and express train no. 122, is swinging onto the six-track tangent which leads from tower 50 directly to Central Terminal. Since no. 122 will be yarded in Curtiss Street, on the north side of the mains,…