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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…
Train first LS-1
We now shift all the way from the western extreme of the Buffalo Division at Bayview to its eastern limit at tower 46, and begin a second picture-journey westward, this time over the Gardenville branch. The track layout around tower 46 is complex,…
Coal drag north out of PRR yard
Forty-five hundred Alco horses grumble out of the Pennsylvania's Southport Yard at Elmira with 79 cars, mostly coal loads, bound for De Witt Yard at Syracuse. Theirs is a circuitous route which takes them north through Horseheads, Watkins Glen,…
Train NC-1 includes Pacemaker box cars
Again we are looking out of the west window of Bayview tower, as we did fifteen pages back. This time we see NC-1, the Central's crack New York-Chicago merchandiser, swinging onto track 1, the westbound high iron of the Erie Division. Such hotshots…
Train SBH-2
On a blisteringly-hot and muggy August day, the head-end crew of symbol freight SBH-2 has opened the nose door on the lead unit of their Alco 'three-bagger' (nos. 1055-3337-1054), apparently in an attempt to create more draft. This train, an…
#1069 leading Train SBH-2
Eastbound road freights made up in Days yard depart in either easterly or westerly directions, depending on whether they run via the Falls Road or the Falls Branch. Trains operated the long way around via Black Rock and East Buffalo (for the sake of…
Train XN-2
The aforementioned DeWitt yard and its approaches will be the subject of the next twenty photographs, an emphasis in keeping with the importance of this colossus of freight classification. Train XN-2 from Buffalo is shown here at Thompson Road on the…
Matched Alcos on train VG-57
This is the scene looking east towards Minoa from Rotnour Road bridge which crosses the yard just east of the westbound and eastbound humps. In the foreground are passenger mains 2 and 1, then freight running tracks 3 and 4. The latter is occupied by…
Train PW-4
Train PW-4, a Youngstown-DeWitt schedule, rolls through Newark, N.Y., on the West Shore main track. Alco units 1071-3372-1046 are trailing 83 loads and 14 empties. In the past ten years the West Shore has been nearly obliterated between Wayneport, 15…
FA-2 #1047 at Buffalo, NY
ABA set DFA-7b #1047, DFB-7b #3343, DFA-7b #1067
FA-2 #1049
ABA set
FA-2 #1052, #1074 at Berea, OH
Westbound passing tri-color signals
FA-2 #1055 at LaGrange, IL
AB set with DFB-7b #3337 and 2 EMD units