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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…
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…
Belt Crossing, #1769, #2455, #5017 in the background
One of the busiest junctions on the Belt Railway - and therefore one of the businest in Indianapolis - is Belt crossing, where the Indiana Division main line from Cincinnati crosses the Belt, and also connects with it by means of two wyes. This…
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…
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 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…
Looking west from Lockport St. at train BB-5
From Lockport Street overpass, we get this view of the NYC tracks as they extend westward past the station and tower 65. It is impossible to visualize the deep chasm from here; the CNR roundhouse, which is the building in the background beyond the…
Pulling second LS-1
Motive-power progress is evident at the same location in February, 1953, as F-7 units 1806 and 1805 ease the 87 loads and 34 empties of 2/LS-1 towards the westbound receiving yard. This was before the shift in emphasis from tractive effort to…
#1807 #1808 at Dewitt, NY
Another view of the puzzles four years later (1953) has for its center of attraction F-7 units 1807 and 1808 moving out of the westbound advance yard onto Main 3 with BC-1, an 81-car manifest train for Collinwood Yard in Cleveland. Peripheral…
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.…
