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4-6-4 #5275
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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…
Front view
The 5363 presents her classic front end to the camera at Shelby Street engine terminal, Indianapolis, in March of 1956. This engine came to the Big Four from St. Thomas, Ont, and once bore Michigan Central number 8218. She ran out her last miles over…
Engineer's side showing cab and cab curtain
How many engineers have had their faces pitted and creased as they peered out of this aperture for mile after mile at high speed? How many have cursed this machine for bucking them, searing them, deafening them, while yet marvelling at the way she…
Train no. 303
This picture shows the high tower and the junction of rail lines at its base to good advantage on the left, no. 303 is leaving the depot bound for Springfield and points south to Cincinnati. The train has eight cars and is pulled by J-1 no. 5384. The…
Train X447 at depot that also houses the division headquarters
The photography returns most emphatically to Ohio Division subject matter in this scene at Springfield, where division headquarters are located. Limestone Street is in the foreground; beyond are the depot platforms and the depot itself, which houses…
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,…
Train no. 426 taking water from water column. Switchtender shanty and target signal in view
The engine crew of train no. 426 finish ministering to their charge, J-1 no. 5300, as it comes time for them to leave Springfield and resume their eastward run from Cincinnati to Cleveland. The engineer heads for the gangway with his long-necked…
Train no. 433. Switchtender shanty and target signal in view
The eleven cars of no. 433, an afternoon train from Cleveland to Cincinnati, follow the 5281 obediently through the naze of trackage just east of Springfield depot. Some of the objects referred to in the preceding commentary are in plainer focus…
train no. 303, double headed Hudsons
On a wintry afternoon in January, 1954, exhaust from three steam locomotives hides the depot at Springfield. In the frosty air, the steam leaks on these battered survivors of the NYC's once-mighty fleet are plainly exposed against their filthy…
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. 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…
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…
Train no. 416
Though she had doubtless had her moments of triumph, too, the 5291, shown here on no. 416 near English Avenue, was decrepit and despised in the days of her assignment to the Big Four. Needless to say, this short-winded old racer was not to be…