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Train no. 473 passing tri-color bracket signal
The residential section of the west side has long since grown past Mount Jackson, but the tower of that name, two and a half miles west of the depot, is still the terminal limit on the St. Louis Line. This situation may be changed, since there is…
Moving whitelined H-6a #5399, ready for scrap, off turntable, roundhouse in background
This picture is the last one taken in Shelby Street engine terminal. Its content signifies another aspect of finality, namely the last, Iugubrious run of a condemned steam engine, the trip to the scrap yard, usually made in the most humiliating…
B Tower and watchman's elevated shanty in view
For its size (1960 population 40,274), Elkhart, Indiana, is probably as unadulterated a railroad town as there is in the highly-developed industrial area comprised of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. It is, moreover, a one railroad town, with the Central…
Looking out from B Tower at the G&M Loop Local
From the steps of B Tower, the scene to the west includes the freight leads, in line with the camera; the passenger mains, curving across to their right; and the Jackson-Elkhart main in the right foreground. Traffic is stopped on Main and Middlebury…
Diesel Passenger Train #5790 at Clark's Hill, IN
Train no. 419 approaching bracket tri-color signal, grain elevator in view
GP7 at Clark's Hill, IN
Train no. 414, semaphore signal in view
On the loop track jumpover bridge on its way to train no. 195
The track layout along the main line at Harmon has not changed much in recent years, although of course the two round houses as well as other steam facilities and associated tracks have long since been retired. One holdover from steam days which…
Pulling train no. 195
No. 195 traverses the maze of trackage between HM and CD interlockings as it departs from Harmon. From left to right, tracks are numbered 5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. At the right is a connection to the ready tracks which joins the loop track further…
Train DHQ for National Guard troops at Camp Drum
Looking south at Roots, we see a 13-car deadhead equipment train coming from Watertown via the Detour and curving onto the Camp Drum wye behind GP-7 road switchers 5790 and 5789. The National Guard units drilling at Camp Drum now travel by bus and…
Train ND-3 at depot
Adams Center is a rural community on the Syracuse Massena line (main line of the so-called. 'North Country'), seven miles south of Massey yard in Watertown. It was formerly a block station at the south end of the double track out of Watertown, and…
Pulling train BF-1 under Bridge Street overpass
Bridge Street overpass frames BF-l as it leaves DeWitt behind GP-7s 5764-5761-5741. The train is on track 7, with tracks 3, 4, and 8 between it and the camera in that order. In the right background, the Empire State Express, train no. 50 for New…
GP7 #5741 at Middletown, OH
Matched pair on train no. 433 west
