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…
Final action in this album is provided by the Elkhart extra as it pulls onto Belt main 2 at tower T, with its rear end still in the north yard east of Bailey Avenue. In the next minute it's Alco units will head west under the concourse at Central…
Again in the summer of 1949, the preponderance of diesels is evident here;a bad-order car is being set out of symbol freight BP-2 (a Buffalo to Philadelphia train running via the Reading from Bethlehem, Pa.), necessitating the use of diesel Switcher…
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…
The morning sun has begun to make its presence felt at River Rouge as GP-7s 5639 and 5660 lead a Stanley extra off the Junction Yard branch onto the southbound Toledo branch main track. This train departed from Junction Yard with 56 cars and picked…