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X3100 West helper
Helper 7526 will be cut away from extra 3100 west on the fly just around the curve. The train will pick up speed quickly behind the agile 4-8-2 on the first leg of its 190-mile run to the IHB's Gibson yard in Hammond, Indiana. The prosaic 0-8-0 will…
Extra west
A short but stiff grade beginning just west of Jackson station and extending westward through a residential area of the city lifts the main line out of the valley of the Grand River. Steam-powered freight trains of any consequence got rear-end…
Working the Jackson coach yard
This little chuffer covering the Jackson coach yard job is a member of a family of six-wheeled switchers on the Central which in 1940 included seven classes and forty six subclasses. The 6940 represents class B-11g, built, surprisingly enough in view…
Train NJ-2
Coach yard, main tracks, freight running tracks, house tracks and freight house appear from left to right in this scene looking east from Jackson passenger station. NJ-2 continues toward Jackson yard on the eastbound freight runner. Hand operated…
Train NJ-2
The Jackson-Kalamazoo segment of the Michigan Central main line between Detroit and Chicago serves a multitude of industries, particularly at Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. One of the services geared to these customers is NJ-2, a pickup run out of Niles…
Train JK-1
This scene of Jackson passenger station and environs is enlivened by JK-1, the westbound Jackson-Kalamazoo local, rattling through behind H-5 class 2-8-2 no. 1459. Directly ahead of the 1459 is the westbound home signal at Pearl Street interlocking,…
Botsford Turn
This is the west end of Jackson yard, with Mohawk 3100 departing on a 58-car Botsford (Kalamazoo) turn. At the rear end, a U-3 switcher is coupled on for assistance on the one-mile grade west of the depot. The main line passes to the north of the…
FA-2 #1300 at Jackson, MI
With PRR F-7A
