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Oklahoma track at Mill Creek
The first series of photographs taken out on the open road are on the Indiana Division, and are arranged in sequence from Cincinnati to Kankakee, save for a brief side-trip to South Anderson. To introduce this series, four views of the Cincinnati…
Opposite view from Oklahoma track at Mill Creek
With relation to the scene shown on the preceding page, this view is in almost the opposite direction. In the background, of course, is the Ohio River, flowing from left to right. The main tracks in the the foreground are, from front to back, those…
Riverside Yard
Three-tenths of a mile west of the aforementioned Storrs Junction sits King Tower, controlling the interlocking which governs movements in and out of the east end of Riverside Yard. This picture was taken from a highway bridge just west of the tower.…
On turntable in front of roundhouse
The twenty-nine stall roundhouse at Riverside was the last facility on the New York Central System to do major inspections and heavy maintenance work on steam locomotives. It became the lone holdout after Bellefontaine roundhouse was closed to steam…
Transfer westbound at Hartwell Ave.
This picture was taken from Hartwell Avenue overpass just below Lockland, a suburb about three miles west of Sharon. (Lockland has sufficient industry to warrant the services of a yard engine, which is dispatched from Sharon six days a week in the…
Mill Creek Yard
The commentary accompanying this picture and the one following will attempt to show the rhyme and reason of the tortuous NYC trackage in the Mill Creek area of downtown Cincinnati (a section said to contain one of the most complex tangles of railroad…
Mill Creek Yard
This is the arrangement of tracks at the west end of Mill Creek yard. The Southern bridge again dominates the background, with the downtown Cincinnati "skyline" in the distance on the right. Cincinnati Junction is out of sight behind the floodwall on…
Train no. 421
Trackage rights have been previously stated to be an integral part of the Cincinnati Terminal operation. Nothing could be more true, because the double track of the B&O west of Ivorydale Junction is a: lifeline over which passes nearly all of the…
Train no. 426 at Ivorydale
Trackage rights have been previously stated to be an integral part of the Cincinnati Terminal operation. Nothing could be more true, because the double track of the B&O west of Ivorydale Junction is a: lifeline over which passes nearly all of the…
L&N transfer at Ivorydale
Among the most interesting of the Cincinnati Terminal operations and in the days of steam especially, by far the most dramatic are the across-the-river transfers. The interest stems from the unusual nature of the transfers; the normal concept of a…
B Line pusher on L&N cut at Hartwell Ave.
Another kind of across-the-river transfer, one equally if not more interesting than the NYC version, is the one handled by the power and crew of either of the south-bank operators, the L&N or the C&O. The sight of an L&N or C&O train on NYC rails is…
Riverside-Sharon transfer eastbound at Hartwell Ave.
Compared with the across-the-river transfers, the inter-yard transfers are much less spectacular and not quite as interesting, but they are just as important in a different respect. Their average consists are shorter and include very little coal,…
Train X448 at Ivorydale
This concluding photograph shows the 3000 barking up through Ivorydale on X-448, with eleven cars of mail and express and rider trailing. Engine 3000, it may be recalled, was pictured previously in both drag and fast freight service. The versatility…
