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This Pennsy class I-1sa 2-10-0 type, no.4348, was caught hustling downgrade at Himrod Junction with 90 empty hopper cars jostling behind. The head-end crew is lined up for a stare at the photographer, with the customary mixture of mirth and…

The NYC local freight above makes a round-trip daily between Corning and Dresden, N.Y., and is shown chuffing slowly uphill on its southward lap at Himrod Junction. Its power is a trim light USRA Mikado, no.1848, which is one of almost 150 such…

The 2609 on the preceding page needed help from the 2655 (above) on this heavy grade, even though the train was a fairly light string of empties (they run up to 140). The two Mohawks are Lima built in 1918, members of the L-1 class, and are rarely…

Most of the New York Central's Pennsylvania Division runs are coal drags going north and empties returning south, though there is a considerable amount of miscellaneous freight interchanged with the Reading at Newberry,Pa. Above is a typical…

Here engine 4640, panting after her long push of 35 miles from Elmira on the rear of extra 4578 north, stands on the main line at Himrod Junction while her crew picks up orders in the telegraph station behind her. Most likely she will back up to…

Rear-end action view at Himrod Junction is of a class L-1a Mohawk, no. 2523 (the NYC's first of that type), assisting an 80-car southbound extra in approximately the same spot shown in the preceding photograph. On the head end are Mohawks 2655 and…

The New York Central's heavy-duty Pennsylvania Division freight line runs thru hilly country in southern-central New York State, which means severe operating problems for the company and spectacular action shots for the railfan. From Dresden the line…