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Train no. 416
Approaching Indianapolis from the west, the Indiana Division main line turns due south in the vicinity of West 60th Street and, in a long tangent, runs through open country to West 16th Street before it finally curves eastward again towards the…
Train no. KI-2
Following in the wake of no. 416 pictured on the preceding page was KI-2, a pickup run from Kankakee to Indianapolis known as the 'Daylighter'. Its modest consist of 42 cars was hustled down the tangent west of town by a grimy L-2, no. 2821.…
Train no. CC-1
As she shouldered the 51-car load of no. 95, the 2815 was panned on the straightaway west of Indianapolis, and she obligingly erupted with a plume of black smoke. In the course of accelerating out of the terminal, the engine was being 'hooked up',…
Mattoon Extra at Indianapolis, IN
The relatively small part of this volume devoted to the Illinois Division does not, of course, give nearly as comprehensive a picture of latter-day steam operations as did the Indiana Division section. Not that stean capitulated early on the Illinois…
Train first BF-1
The photographs in this album are arranged as nearly as possible in an east-to-west sequence, and the first twenty-two of them were taken along the Cleveland - St. Louis route through town - that is, inbound on the Ohio Division and outbound on the…
Train no. 473
The 137-mile main line of the New York Central between Bellefontaine and Indianapolis is known officially as the Indianapolis District of the Ohio Division. From East 38th Street, which crosses it on an overpass about a mile from Eastwood, its…
Train no. 472
This is no. 472, the opposite side of the run previously pictured, just east of Arlington Avenue on its way out of Indianapolis. The eastbound grade stiffens somewhat in this vicinity, and the engineer has throttled well back to compensate for the…
On local freight "B-line switch run"
H-5 class 2-8-2 no. 1576, a longtime member of the Big Four steam fraternity, hustles out of Indianapolis with the Ohio Division local freight to South Anderson and return. When this was taken, the 1576 was a veteran of a creditable forty years'…
View toward Brightwood Yd. Tri-color bracket signal in view.
This is the view to the west from the steps of Eastwood tower, looking along the main line and into the east end of Brightwood Yard. A 53-car transfer cut, powered by no. 8899, a 1200-HP EMD switcher, is pulling up the eastward main past the home…
View east at Eastward Tower. Tri-color bracket signal and Eastwood interlocking tower in view.
This picture, complimentary to the preceding one, includes Eastwood tower in the right center background. On the right are the main tracks, in the center is the running track from the eastbound class yard, and on the left, beginning with no. 1, are…
Duane turn. View includes an F-M C-liner and an EMD F unit
To encompass this action, the camera was located astride the aforementioned north lead, and was faced across the south lead (in the foreground) and the seven Eastwood tracks towards the main line. Diesels 1859-6600 are departing from Brightwood on…
With a B unit on train no. SLB-8 coming off belt
This is what the operator at Belt Junction would have seen had he looked out the west window of his tower on a blistering afternoon in July, 1956. In the center, two major arteries of commerce, the Central's main line and Massachusetts Avenue, extend…
Train no. SLB-8 looking east
This picture was taken immediately after the preceding one from the opposite (east) window of the tower at Belt Junction. It shows the head end of SLB-8 as the latter was crossed over, preparatory to being brought into the eastbound class yard at…
#9625, #5617, #1622, #8899 in view
The Brightwood engine terminal, pictured here, is a prime example of the revolutionary changes in physical plant and manpower requirements brought about by the substitution of diesel for steam power. Brightwood "roundhouse", as the place is still…
Train no. 472
Around eight o'clock in the morning, the automobiles of people enroute to their jobs downtown parade westbound along Massachusetts Avenue as no. 472 is hustled out of town by a stack-rapping J-1, the 5277. In all probability, very few of the…