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2-8-2 #1958 at Elkhart, IN
at the roundhouse
Extra west, third section of NY-6
Engine 1982 walks a 69-car third section of NY-6 (a "symboled extra") upgrade out of Brightwood yard, eastbound on the 25-mile tangent, which extends from Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis to Pendleton. Mikados of the H-7 class such as the one…
Light hump
The Cincinnati Terminal operation is one of the most interesting of all on the New York Central System - a large statement, of course, because the Central's big terminals are many and varied in the numerous cities it enters. The operation at…
Heavy hump cut
Engine 1971 is shown here shoving a typical cut - L&N coal - up the heavy hump. This cut is on the scale track, but is being switched to the lead (in the foreground, below) farther up the hill. The nine-track eastbound receiving yard in the…
Transfer westbound at Hartwell Ave.
This picture was taken from Hartwell Avenue overpass just below Lockland, a suburb about three miles west of Sharon. (Lockland has sufficient industry to warrant the services of a yard engine, which is dispatched from Sharon six days a week in the…
L&N transfer at Ivorydale
Among the most interesting of the Cincinnati Terminal operations and in the days of steam especially, by far the most dramatic are the across-the-river transfers. The interest stems from the unusual nature of the transfers; the normal concept of a…
B Line pusher on L&N cut at Hartwell Ave.
Another kind of across-the-river transfer, one equally if not more interesting than the NYC version, is the one handled by the power and crew of either of the south-bank operators, the L&N or the C&O. The sight of an L&N or C&O train on NYC rails is…
Riverside-Sharon transfer eastbound at Hartwell Ave.
Compared with the across-the-river transfers, the inter-yard transfers are much less spectacular and not quite as interesting, but they are just as important in a different respect. Their average consists are shorter and include very little coal,…
E&I extra south
Terre Haute is about 70 miles west of Indianapolis on the main line of the Illinois Division. By virtue of its population of 65,000 and its importance in manufacturing and as the commercial center for a coal-mining region, it would be a key point on…
At the engine terminal, wood water tank in view
Petersburg, a sleepy little town in southwestern Indiana with a population of about 3,000, was the destination of Extra 1962 south pictured on the preceding page. It is a 95-mile run from Terre Haute, a run which is of the hill-and-dale variety for…
E&I extra north
In its passage through Terre Haute enroute to the junction point with the main line just west of the depot, the E&I traverses the highly-industrialized southwest side of town and, in so doing, establishes the NYC in the healthy position it enjoys…
E&I extra north passing the depot
Up from Petersburg with 55 L&N hoppers of Gary coal, the 1970 blasts past the depot at Terre Haute on the last lap into the terminal at Duane. The rear end of the train should be coming off the E&I, rounding the curve which was visible in part in the…
2-8-2 MC #7964 at Chicago, IL
Blt. 1920
