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The track layout at Gardenville is crossed at several key places by highway overpasses, a situation which makes the yard an easy one to photograph. This is the view from Union Road bridge, looking east. The location here is a little over a mile west…

These are the present diesel facilities at Gardenville, photographed from the hump. This is not a maintenance point, and the diesels receive only light running repairs, in addition to being fueled, watered, and sanded. A new YMCA lodge has since been…

Before the diesel servicing facilities at Gardenville were completed in 1952, layover road diesels were spotted on these tracks adjacent to the roundhouse. The latter is now torn down, and diesels have their own open-air 'roundhouse' on the north…

As BB-4 moves over the apex of the hump at 3 MPH, two men stationed here perform some of the tasks required by this type of classification. First the checker chalks on each car its destination, the date, and whether it is a load or an empty. Then the…

From the hump, just below the hump yard office, we get this view of the hump lead, the outlets from the 3-8 and 9-13 pockets, the general yard office, and Lossen Road bridge. The aforementioned pockets are called the 'middle' and the 'lower',…

The view west from Lossen Road includes the most vital components of Gardenville yard. Here we can see the westbound receiving yard, the hump, the three retarder towers, the two-story general yard office, and, behind it, the thoroughfares. In the…

Here is the promised view of the eastbound advance yard from Lossen Road. To first identify other trackage which borders this yard, the lengthy cuts of cars extending out of the picture at the left are in the westbound receiving yard. The…

Our principal subject is still Extra 1043, and our vantage point is, again, Rowley Road bridge. Here is the view looking west (the afternoon sun was a stumbling block) towards the east end of Gardenville yard. The extra is pulling into the…

This section of the Gardenville branch, photographed from Rowley Road bridge, is about a mile west of tower 46. The train is an extra from DeWitt, pulled by Alcos 1043-3323. It consists of 65 empty gons and hoppers, which will be classified at…