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HvyWt #6449 at Cleveland, OH
Pacific with train arriving at Erie RR depot, B&O station in background
HvyWt #5221
On "Wolverine"
Train no. 407
S-1 no. 6017 is shown above gathering speed just west of Short Line Junction with the 12 cars of no. 407, the afternoon train to Saint Louis. The eastbound home signals and the tower itself are visible less than a mile away. No. 407, of course, has…
Train no. 433
Last of the Cleveland series, this picture shows no. 433, the previously mentioned afternoon train to Cincinnati, being hustled past Short Line Junction by L-3a 4-8-2 no. 3022. In a little over four miles and seven minutes' running time from Short…
Train no. 472 pssing a bracket style semaphore signal
The double-tracked main line of the Ohio Division is a straight shot out of Berea for 68 miles to Galion. At the latter point it forks, with a single track heading south-southwest to Columbus and two tracks bending more to the west towards…
Trains 303 and X447
Taken shortly after the preceding picture and following the arrival of no. 303 from Detroit, Toledo, and Bellefontaine, this picture shows the two J-1s, the 5283 on no. 303 and the 5384 on X-447, lined up abreast on depot tracks one and two,…
Valley Run
The decline in passenger business at Springfield has been paralleled in recent years by a decrease in car loadings as well. The closing of the huge Crowell-Collier Publishing Company plant in 1957 deprived the railroad of a considerable account at…
Train no. 405
Guilford Hill is more of an irritant than an obstacle to passenger trains, and this was just as true in steam days as it is now. Westbound trains make no stops between Cincinnati and Batesville. Maximum speed on the hill westbound is 70 MPH for the…
Train no. 426
Middletown, 18 miles out of Sharon, is the southernmost of the many Miami Valley points along the Ohio Division which generate substantial amounts of traffic. The chief industry here is the Armco steel mill, but there are others, particularly the…
Train no. 416
Number 416 leaves a sweeping vista of midwest farmland behind as it! approaches Lebanon from the west behind PT-tendered J-1 no. 5269. Although this train was not scheduled to stop at Lebanon, its wheels were in the grip of a heavy service…
Train no. 5 at Thompson Rd.
Engine no.6016 of the NYC's great Niagara class leaves East Syracuse in a cloud of soot and dust as she roars thru at 70 m.p.h. with train no. 5, the westbound "Mohawk". This train, a semi-local from New York to Chicago, is one of many on which the…
HvyWt #5218 at Syracuse, NY
Train no. 95 at Thompson Rd.
HvyWt #4704 at Geneva, NY
Eastbound Train #18. Note Combine (unusal for this train) in front of usual RPO, Baggage, Coach consist.