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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 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…
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…
Front view, at coal tower
Even the bright Memorial Day sunshine could not dissipate the atmosphere of decay which casts an inevitable pall over Shelby Street. Weathered structures, rusting machinery, twisted rails, littered grounds - all combine to suggest that here is the…
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…
GP7 at Clarks Hill, IN
Train no. 414, semaphore signal in view
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…
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…
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…
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…
Four GP-7s pulling through 'Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania'
The most rugged terrain traversed by the NYC in Pennsylvania (and perhaps anywhere) lies between Jersey Shore and Lawrenceville, This is a segment of the main line between Lyons and Newberry Junction referred to locally as the 'Fallbrook' because of…
GP7 #1502 at Youngstown, OH
Ex DRSP-4m P&LE #5735
GP7 #1533 at Youngstown, OH
Ex DRS-4f P&LE #5676
