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Again from the second floor of Central Avenue yard office, this time looking to the north, we see the old Westbound yard and main line cutting across Central Avenue. The Old Westbound yard is used for storage and for making up northbound Bay City…

Central Avenue is overpassed in two places by Junction Yard trackage. The bridge carrying the eastbound class yard leads, shown on the preceding page, is about a block south of the westbound hump lead bridge photographed here. In the right background…

The downtown Detroit skyline and the Ambassador Bridge across the Detroit River form the backdrop for this view of Junction Yard as seen from a second-floor window of Central Avenue yard office. Central Avenue is directly below, and beyond it is the…

This is the east end of Junction Yard, Detroit's major freight classification facility, as seen from the yardmaster's shanty at Livernois Avenue. The DetroitChicago main line is on the far right. Humper 8701 (with slug 453) is shoving towards the…

With westbound freight