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Train SLD-2 passing interlocking tower
This picture is a follow-up to the preceding one in that it was taken on the same day and of the same train. The consist, however, has undergone some change, and the power is altogether different. Standard operating practice at Bellefontaine on SLD-2…
Train no. 473 passing tri-color bracket signal
The residential section of the west side has long since grown past Mount Jackson, but the tower of that name, two and a half miles west of the depot, is still the terminal limit on the St. Louis Line. This situation may be changed, since there is…
Train ND-3 at depot
Adams Center is a rural community on the Syracuse Massena line (main line of the so-called. 'North Country'), seven miles south of Massey yard in Watertown. It was formerly a block station at the south end of the double track out of Watertown, and…
Train DSL-1
The two geeps shown in the previous picture leaving town on SLD-2 are photographed here a couple of hours earlier on the same day as they arrived on DSL-1. Freight service north to Toledo was fully dieselized at the time because of the retirement of…
Train BF-7 at Gest Yard
Gest yard is located eight-tenths of a mile south of the tower along the main line to Cincinnati, and, as noted, handles northbound and southbound traffic. On this account, Gest is responsible for switching up three of the five local freights which…
Terminal at Toledo, OH
Shop, Fueling Station with GP-7s in Stanley Yard
Sep-06
P&E GP7 (lightning stripes) pulling No. 12, "Peorian", vertical lift bridge in background
Sep-03
GP7 5795 (cigar band) pulls a local with standard coaches (two tone gray)
Sand Tower at Toledo, OH
Shop, Sand Tower, Fueling Station with GP-7s in Stanley Yard
Sand Tower at Toledo, OH
Sand Tower with GP-7s in Stanley Yard
Sand tower #5627
GPs at sand tower
RR Activity at Toledo, OH
Radio phone yardmaster-Hump & trimmer engines.
Pulling train BF-1 under Bridge Street overpass
Bridge Street overpass frames BF-l as it leaves DeWitt behind GP-7s 5764-5761-5741. The train is on track 7, with tracks 3, 4, and 8 between it and the camera in that order. In the right background, the Empire State Express, train no. 50 for New…
On the loop track jumpover bridge on its way to train no. 195
The track layout along the main line at Harmon has not changed much in recent years, although of course the two round houses as well as other steam facilities and associated tracks have long since been retired. One holdover from steam days which…
Moving whitelined H-6a #5399, ready for scrap, off turntable, roundhouse in background
This picture is the last one taken in Shelby Street engine terminal. Its content signifies another aspect of finality, namely the last, Iugubrious run of a condemned steam engine, the trip to the scrap yard, usually made in the most humiliating…