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With a B unit on train no. SLB-8 coming off belt
This is what the operator at Belt Junction would have seen had he looked out the west window of his tower on a blistering afternoon in July, 1956. In the center, two major arteries of commerce, the Central's main line and Massachusetts Avenue, extend…
View east from footbridge
Not far west of the previous vantage point a footbridge crosses Airline Junction Yard, and this photograph and the following two were taken from the bridge. To the left of the main tracks on 3 Main is a Danbury extra, F7 units 1762-1763 with 99 empty…
Train Wreck #1710, #1735, #2537 at Ashtabula, OH
F-7A, U-25b
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 NY-8
Facing west from Union Road bridge, we see, from left to right, the eastbound receiving yard, the thoroughfares, and, beyond them, the westbound advance yard. The latter yard, consisting of eight tracks, was, like its eastbound counterpart, used for…
Train no. NY/BFNY-4
The best window of IJ tower provides this view of the main line stretching out past BX towards Mount Jackson. Across the weed groin area is Westside-yard, and beyond it is the main line of the Pennsylvania (the string of boxcars in the left…
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…
Train BF-1
About five miles west of Belle Isle, the NYC main line passes through the village of Warners. On the head end of train no. 50 on track two at Warners, the crew prepares to look over the 85 cars of Indianapolis-bound manifest BF-1, passing on track 4.…
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…
Shop #1781 at DeWitt Yard, Syracuse, NY
Diesel Shop with F7A
Sand Tower #1835, #1118 at Gardenville Yard, Buffalo, NY
Sand Tower, with F7A and FA-2