This is practically the same scene as that shown three pages back, with the camera shifted slightly southward. The double-tracked passenger main is at left. Hudson type no.5331 in front of the coal dock is ready for the run on train no. 40 to New…
Engine 3049 of the L-3b class Mohawk type heads west into the evening sun, with her 72-car train inching out of DeWitt Yards behind her. Freight tracks here run in an alley formed by the engine terminal on the right and the village of East Syracuse…
This scene needs no definition, since it is the same as the one described in detail four pages back. There is a lull in yard operations as the westbound "Advance Empire" flashes by at 70 m.p.h. behind engine 6009, a Niagara 4-8-4 type. There are…
Coal and sand are received from this structure in East Syracuse, built in 1937. Carloads are brought in under the shed with the inverted-V roof and dumped into pits, from which conveyor belts lift the load up into the storage tanks over the fueling…
Two of the Central's symmetrical Hudson types, engines 5204 and 5270, are caught in an idle moment at the East Syracuse fueling station. Both are of the J-1 class and were built by Alco in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Since then they have been…
Above is the engine-inspection building at East Syracuse, referred to nine pages back in this album. Locomotives are sent here after refueling and dumping of ashes, and are given a thorough pit-inspection and lubrication; they are then backed around…