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Passing TV camera at Oakland Av.
A 144-car empty train from Selkirk behind units 1607-2452-6603 pulls by the TV camera and reflector at Oakland Avenue, just prior to entering the westbound receiving yard. The track on the left is the eastbound fast freight; the main tracks are…
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…
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…
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…
Stanley Puller passing tri-color signals
The junction of the Cleveland-Chicago main line with the almost equally heavily-trafficked Detroit-Toledo branch is at Swan Creek, 1.3 miles west of Central Union Terminal. Swan Creek also governs movements to and from the east end of Airline…
Stanley Puller
This photograph was made facing west from Fassett Street and shows the end of the four-track territory referred to above. An Airline Junction-Stanley puller consisting of 70 empty boxcars is being routed from track 2 to track 4; at Oakdale, GP7 5628…
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…
Train DC-7
Business from the auto industry and other sources in Detroit, gathered up the preceding day, leaves that metropolis in the early morning on DC-7, a manifest schedule calling for afternoon arrival at Gibson yard on the IHB. This Sunday edition of the…
Train CD-4
Redball CD-4 hustles into Niles behind F7 units 1676-2435-1667. This is a Blue Island-to-Dewitt schedule operating via Detroit, and its 74 cars include perishables handled by the IHB on the 3:00 AM cutoff from western connections at Chicago. The…
Back-to-back GP-9s on Stanley extra, three headed mast semaphore signal in view
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…
RR Activity at Toledo, OH
Radio phone yardmaster-Hump & trimmer engines.
RR Activity at Toledo, OH
Radio phone yardmaster-Hump & trimmer engines.
Locomotive Maintenance at Collinwood, Cleveland, OH
Blowing siren.