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View from E 152nd St Cleveland
The overpass at East 152nd Street, Cleveland, provides an excellent vantage point from which to scan one of the busiest bottlenecks on the entire New York Central System. This is the view looking east. From right to left, it includes the South yar,…
Train SLD-2 passing interlocking tower
This picture is a follow-up to the preceding one in that it was taken on the same day and of the same train. The consist, however, has undergone some change, and the power is altogether different. Standard operating practice at Bellefontaine on SLD-2…
Train DSL-1
The two geeps shown in the previous picture leaving town on SLD-2 are photographed here a couple of hours earlier on the same day as they arrived on DSL-1. Freight service north to Toledo was fully dieselized at the time because of the retirement of…
Train BF-7 at Gest Yard
Gest yard is located eight-tenths of a mile south of the tower along the main line to Cincinnati, and, as noted, handles northbound and southbound traffic. On this account, Gest is responsible for switching up three of the five local freights which…
View toward Brightwood Yd. Tri-color bracket signal in view.
This is the view to the west from the steps of Eastwood tower, looking along the main line and into the east end of Brightwood Yard. A 53-car transfer cut, powered by no. 8899, a 1200-HP EMD switcher, is pulling up the eastward main past the home…
Train no. SLB-8 looking east
This picture was taken immediately after the preceding one from the opposite (east) window of the tower at Belt Junction. It shows the head end of SLB-8 as the latter was crossed over, preparatory to being brought into the eastbound class yard at…
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…
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…
Job 20, speeder and searchlight signal mast in foreground
There is a considerable expanse of marshland extending in from Lake Erie south of the Buffalo River. It has been filled in a great deal to accommodate railroad rights-of-way and yards, grain elevators, industrial plants, and urban areas. The NYC…
LV Symbol freight SJ-2 behind 4 EMD F units, dead 4-8-4s in background
This is the same scene taken eight months later in the early summer of 1949. Symbol freight SJ-2 is shown arriving behind four new 1500horsepower EMD units, numbered 526-527-511-510. Usual steam-hauled consist of this train was 70-80 loads; on this…
Train VEG
The new order in motive-power, here represented by EMD units 1653-1654, dominates the setting of the previous photograph in this shot, taken in the same spot about an hour later. The train is E-12, the eastbound pickup freight between Erie and…
Alco switcher assisting a 4 unit diesel and a 4-8-4
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…
LV train BP-2
Here is the BP-2 of the previous photograph, with its 107 cars ready to highball down the Susquehanna Valley for Coxton. The diesel units, no's.512-513-523-522,will do most of the pulling and all of the braking enroute, while the steam engine is…
LV Baldwin 1500 hp roadswitcher
Lehigh Valley branches are more and more bending under the weight of burbling diesel switchers and road-switchers, rather than of clanking 4-6-0s, 4-6-2s, and 2-8-2s. Above is a 1500-horsepower Baldwin-Westinghouse product, shown a short distance out…
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…