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HvyWt #5221
On "Wolverine"
with other locomotives at the water column and coal tower
Outside the 28-stall roundhouse at Bellefontaine, a group of steam engines stands simmering in various stages of the cycle of between run activities. In a cluster and waiting to have their fires cleaned are, from left to right, an L-2, an H-6,…
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. 137
The six-track main extending west from the terminal divides at tower 50, one and three-tenths miles from tower 49. In the interim, it is bisected by a single-track line of the Pennsylvania, which runs from their yards to their freighthouse and sundry…
Double headed train no. 122 under both semaphore and searchlight signal bridge
This steam-wreathed Niagara, in charge of mail and express train no. 122, is swinging onto the six-track tangent which leads from tower 50 directly to Central Terminal. Since no. 122 will be yarded in Curtiss Street, on the north side of the mains,…
Double headed Hudsons on train X-35. Tower 50 in view
This westbound train is making a movement exactly the reverse of that made by no. 122, pictured just previously. It is X-35, it departed from Curtiss Street, it used main 3 (the westbound counterpart of main 4) from there to tower 50, and it is here…
Train no. 379
This picture begins the fourth and final series, illustrating the section of the Buffalo Division known as the Niagara Falls branch, which extends 27 miles from tower 50 in Buffalo to tower 65 in Suspension Bridge. Here is engine 5238 leading a…
Running light from depot off train no. 10 from St. Lawrence Div., coal tower in view
This is practically the same scene as that shown three pages back, with the camera shifted slightly southward. The double-tracked passenger main is at left. Hudson type no.5331 in front of the coal dock is ready for the run on train no. 40 to New…
Two Hudsons at coal tower
Two of the Central's symmetrical Hudson types, engines 5204 and 5270, are caught in an idle moment at the East Syracuse fueling station. Both are of the J-1 class and were built by Alco in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Since then they have been…
Steam Passenger Train #5225 at Syracuse, NY
Eastbound local at depot
HvyWt #5218 at Syracuse, NY
Train no. 95 at Thompson Rd.
