A tandem of 4-6-4s, with J-1 no. 5391 in the van and J-3 no. 5439, trailing, drift easily up the ascent from the river with the nine cars of no. 416. Obviously this consist warrants no such aggregate of speed and horsepower. The explanation for the…
Number 405 hustles through the interlocking at KD behind the quickening beats of the 5291. The track in the center foreground is the B&o main, which joins and absorbs the eastward main of the P&E at KD and continues to IJ, representing the B&O's…
Exchange Street, along the Falls Branch in downtown Buffalo, was formerly the site of the NYC's main passenger terminal in the city. The old depot there had become crowded and delapidated, as well as an operating headache, hence the present Central…
Most of the few steam locomotives which have appeared in the pictures thus far have been more or less incidental to the main purpose of all of this photography, i.e., to record on film as many of the key points of the Buffalo Division as possible.…