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Sand Tower, with F7A and FA-2

Sand Tower, loading sand into F7A

Facing west from Union Road bridge, we see, from left to right, the eastbound receiving yard, the thoroughfares, and, beyond them, the westbound advance yard. The latter yard, consisting of eight tracks, was, like its eastbound counterpart, used for…

Turntable with F7A

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 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…

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…

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…