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Train VEG across Clark St., East Syracuse, NY
Clark Street in East Syracuse is doubtless one of the most often blocked grade crossings in New York State. Five tracks cross it: four freight mains leading to and from DeWitt Yards, with important crossovers necessitating slow speed and frequent…
On outbound engine tracks
This isn't something out of Hollywood, nor does it mean that the NYC has extended its operations into desert territory; it is an outgoing engine track at the East Syracuse terminal, smoke from which darkens an otherwise unclouded evening sky. Engine…
Steam Passenger Train #6009 at East Syracuse, NY
Train no. 55
4-6-4 #5452 at East Syracuse, NY
Light engine to depot, coal tower in view
4-8-4 #6018 at East Syracuse, NY
At engine terminal
Steam Freight Train at East Syracuse, NY
Train MC-7 by inspection shed, Pacemaker boxcars up front
Steam Freight Train #1636 at East Syracuse, NY
Train BC-1 passing steam engines
Looking west from Bridge Street, coal tower in view
Facing west from Bridge Street, we get this view of the track layout just west of the puzzles at the west end of Devitt Yard, High-speed mains 1 and 2 are in the lower left corner. The coal dock is obvious, and behind and to the right of it is the…
Train QD-2 arriving, coal tower in view
The same scene in 1953, four years later, shows an identical layout. Steam activity was by then limited to local passenger and mail and express trains. This phasingout is symbolized by Alco geep 8243 arriving on Main 8 with QD-2, the local freight…
In front of 'square house'
The nearest thing in NYC steam to the progressive principle of a diesel fueling facility was the 'square house' at DeWitt. Located west of the yard along the Lake Line, this rectangular building housed four through tracks with pits and provided quick…
At the coal tower
These photographs and those on the two pages following constitute a memorial to steam as exemplified by classic NYC power. They were taken at the DeWitt coaling station in the final year of operations at that facility. Hudsons 5452 and 5214 lead off,…
At the coal tower
Hudsons 5242 and 5273 of the pioneering J-1 class liven up this view of the coal dock area. There were 205 of these engines in various subclasses outshopped by Alco in the years from 1927 to 1931. The basic specifications of these two were nearly…
At the coal tower
The Hudson type on the NYC reached its peak in the fifty J-3 engines built (by Alco, of course) in 1937 and 1938. Although boiler pressure was raised to 265 lbs. psi from 225 on the J-1s, these engines developed slightly less tractive effort due to…
In front of water tanks
This portrait of the 5431 at rest displays most of the characteristics of later NYC steam power - drop coupler, pump shields, flared headlight, Worthington feedwater heater and pump, Baker valve gear, disc drivers, offset generator, and turret, to…