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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…
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 A/BC-3 leaving Seneca Yard
The north window of tower Daffords this view of the main tracks, on the far right, and the converging tracks of Seneca yard. Three unit diesel 1786-2438-1787 is doubling the head 41 cars of A/BC-3, a drag which later left with 36 loads and 69…
Pulling second LS-1
Motive-power progress is evident at the same location in February, 1953, as F-7 units 1806 and 1805 ease the 87 loads and 34 empties of 2/LS-1 towards the westbound receiving yard. This was before the shift in emphasis from tractive effort to…
#1807 #1808 at Dewitt, NY
Another view of the puzzles four years later (1953) has for its center of attraction F-7 units 1807 and 1808 moving out of the westbound advance yard onto Main 3 with BC-1, an 81-car manifest train for Collinwood Yard in Cleveland. Peripheral…
Train CD-2 at Belle Isle
Opposite DeWitt yard on the westside of Syracuse, there was once a yard in an area known as Belle Isle. This yard was used for traffic being transferred between mainline and Pennsylvania Division trains on the one hand and trains serving Oswego,…
Train BF-1
About five miles west of Belle Isle, the NYC main line passes through the village of Warners. On the head end of train no. 50 on track two at Warners, the crew prepares to look over the 85 cars of Indianapolis-bound manifest BF-1, passing on track 4.…
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…
F7A #1636 at East Cleveland, OH
Under tri-color signal bridge
F7A #1636
With coal extra
