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Yard IHB #8723 at Blue Island, IL
Overall view of eastbound class yard
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…
Westbound train CG-1 passing Tower 47 at the west end of Frontier Yard
Tower 47, an interlocking of bottleneck reputation, controls the westerly access routes to the south side of Frontier Yard. In this scene, train CG-1, a pickup run from Buffalo to Cleveland, reaches the tower as it pulls out of the south yard and…
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…
View from tower IJ
From his east window, the operator at IJ tower has a fair-to-middling view of the west side of downtown Indianapolis. The same vantage point permits him to oversee the workings of the most vital part of his plant. The converging double-track mains…
View east from footbridge
Not far west of the previous vantage point a footbridge crosses Airline Junction Yard, and this photograph and the following two were taken from the bridge. To the left of the main tracks on 3 Main is a Danbury extra, F7 units 1762-1763 with 99 empty…
Turntable at Hammond, IN
View of turntable and roundhouse at Gibson Yard
Turntable #1675 at Gardenville Yard, Buffalo, NY
Turntable with F7A
Train Wreck #5969 at Rolling Prairie, IN
Wrecked with F7-B #2448 and GP-30 #6117
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 of All-Steel NYC Box Cars Speeds on Main Line
Short lightning stripes under semaphore signal bridge. Note blade still dropping
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 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…
Train no. 43
As it bears down on tower 46 at 85 MPH, no. 43, the semi-local 'South Shore Express', is about one mile inside the eastern limit of the Buffalo Division. Tower 46, which controls interlockings at seven different locations, is principally the means of…
Train No. 35 passing Fassett Tower and semephore signal bridge
Little Fassett Street tower on the left is at the west end of a short stretch of four-track main line in East Toledo. It also controls movements between the main tracks and the northwest wye connection with the W&LE belt. This wye is visible here…