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Train first LS-1
We now shift all the way from the western extreme of the Buffalo Division at Bayview to its eastern limit at tower 46, and begin a second picture-journey westward, this time over the Gardenville branch. The track layout around tower 46 is complex,…
Train SBH-2
On a blisteringly-hot and muggy August day, the head-end crew of symbol freight SBH-2 has opened the nose door on the lead unit of their Alco 'three-bagger' (nos. 1055-3337-1054), apparently in an attempt to create more draft. This train, an…
Train XN-2
The aforementioned DeWitt yard and its approaches will be the subject of the next twenty photographs, an emphasis in keeping with the importance of this colossus of freight classification. Train XN-2 from Buffalo is shown here at Thompson Road on the…
Matched Alcos on train VG-57
This is the scene looking east towards Minoa from Rotnour Road bridge which crosses the yard just east of the westbound and eastbound humps. In the foreground are passenger mains 2 and 1, then freight running tracks 3 and 4. The latter is occupied by…
Train PW-4
Train PW-4, a Youngstown-DeWitt schedule, rolls through Newark, N.Y., on the West Shore main track. Alco units 1071-3372-1046 are trailing 83 loads and 14 empties. In the past ten years the West Shore has been nearly obliterated between Wayneport, 15…
Alco moving coal out of Cherry Tree
Mr. R. C. Sweely, friend and business associate of the photographer and native of Avis, stands at the Cherry Tree diesel facility in front of a three-unit Alco consist which shortly afterwards hauled 150 loads of coal out of town on the Cherry…
With additional units
This bridge at C.B. Junction, Pa., carries the NYC line between Cherry Tree and Clearfield (known as the 'C.B. Line') over U.S. Highway 322, a branch of the PRR, and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. The NYC has trackage rights over the B & O…
FA-2 #1047 at Buffalo, NY
ABA set DFA-7b #1047, DFB-7b #3343, DFA-7b #1067
FA-2 #1049
ABA set
FA-2 #1052, #1074 at Berea, OH
Westbound passing tri-color signals
FA-2 #1055 at LaGrange, IL
AB set with DFB-7b #3337 and 2 EMD units
