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Train no. 419
Indianapolis-Chicago local no. 419 - opposite number to the train just pictured - leaves Lebanon behind the 5437, sister to the 5441, In the background here are two landmarks which (if not as obviously as grain elevators) exude a midwestern flavor --…
Train no. 416 passing depot
The staccato voice of the 5415 resumes its chatter as the J-3 swings no. 416 through the turnout from single track to eastward main at Clarks Hill. The pickup waiting at High Street crossing is fouling the Nickel Plate interchange track, but the…
Train no. 414
Lafayette, a flourishing city of some 35,000 persons located in the upper middle section of the Wabash River valley, is about halfway between Indianapolis and Kankakee on the Indiana Division main line. It is the operational midpoint of the line,…
Train no. 3, west bound 'Riley' taking water
The 5421 gets a refill as she pauses at Lafayette depot on no. 3, the westbound 'Riley'. The 18,000-gallon capacity of her PT tank enabled her to make the 173-mile run from Cincinnati to Lafayette for water, whereas an engine with conventional tender…
Train first 41
The Illinois Division headquarters are, very fittingly, located in the depot at Mattoon. This windswept town of 17,500 population, smack in the middle on the central Illinois prairie, is at near dead-center on the main line between Indianapolis and…
Train no. 419
Since a picture of an Illinois Division train was not available, this shot of Indiana Division no. 419 (an Indianapolis-Chicago local, now discontinued) was inserted here to begin the Illinois Division portion of the Ohio-Illinois Division…
Train no. 416
The tangent on the Cincinnati line between English Avenue and Belt crossing was the setting for this picture and the one following. On this stretch, eastbound passenger trains begin picking up the pace for the fast run to Shelbyville, and eastbound…
Train no. 405
In the waning light of a January afternoon in 1954, no. 405 is hustled into Indianapolis by PT-tendered J-3 no. 5413. The train is just coming onto Indianapolis Union tracks at College Avenue, about four city blocks west of Shelby Street (the…
Train no. 3, westbound "James Whitcomb Riley"
Number 3, the westbound "Riley", heads towards the depot over the IU between East Street and Virginia Avenue. The B&O freighthouse is beyond the paved area below the elevation on the right. The track in the foreground is the NYC freighthouse lead,…
Train no. 3, westbound "James Whitcomb Riley"
The selection of the name for its Cincinnati-Chicago streamliner was a fortunate one for the NYC. There is a great deal of what is called "local pride" in Indiana (through which the train of course makes most of its run, and from whose citizens it…
Double heading train no. 416
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…
Train no. 122
This is part of the view west from Bailey Avenue bridge. In the foreground on main 8, engine 5430 is heading the 30 cars of no. 122, a mail and express run to New York, this train will be switched onto track 2 at tower 47, but right now the dwarf is…
Train X-35 and train no. 379
At Fillmore Street, the extreme west end of the terminal interlocking, the leads from Lindy and Curtiss Street yards converge and join the mains, which total six here and are numbered, from right to left, 6-5-2-1-4-3. The multiple trackage makes it…
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. 10
Chicago Buffalo overnighter no. 10 streaks into the straightaway at Blasdell, its J-3 whistling raucously for Milestrip Road. The twelve-car train is on high-speed main 2, while in front of it is freight main 6 and behind it are mains 1, 4, 3, and 5,…