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EMD at Elkhart, IN
Cab unit interior
U-25B #2510, #2531
leading a TOFC train
U-25B #2510, #2531
leading a TOFC train
Alco RS-11 NH #1404 at Boston, MA
New Haven R.R.
FA-1 NH #0427 at Cedar Hill, CT
New Haven R.R.
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 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 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,…
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…
Train JS-2
Hotshot JS-2, a Michigan Central train from Chicago and Detroit, eases through the diamonds and crossovers at tower 65, at the north end of the Falls Branch. Baldwin units 3813 and 3817 are pulling 65 cars, some of which are out on the bridge and…
Train SD-1 next to depot
These big Fairbanks-Morse units, nos. 5007-5009, are chortling in a subdued, opposed-piston bass as they ease past the depot at Suspension Bridge. Behind them out of Lockport Street yard are the 60 cars of SD-1, a Canada Division run due out of the…
Train BV-1 passing bracket mounted semaphore signals
Although the basic mainline operation is still double track with automatic block signal rules, there have been substantial physical changes on the Boston and Albany Division in recent years. In this photograph, train By-1, with Fairbanks-Morse units…
Ore extra arriving. Fueling station and tower in background.
This view is across the west end of West Springfield yard and includes the diesel fueling station (still intact), locomotive shop (demolished), and general yard office (completely remodeled). The train entering the yard on track 6 in the eastbound…
Train BP-1
The scene now shifts to Watertown, former headquarters of the St. Lawrence and Adirondack Division comprising all trackage north of Utica and Syracuse. This jurisdiction has been eliminated and the territory now belongs to the Mohawk Division…
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…