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Right front 3/4 view
While the J-engines (the J-1s in particular) were the bellwethers of the NYC's fleet of high-speed passenger engines, the L-engines (especially the L-2s) were the workhorses of its roster of freight power. There were 300 L-2s, all turned out by Alco…
Train no. CC-3
In the 18 miles between Wade, the tower at the vost end of Riverside Yard, and Lawrenceburg Junction, the main line of the Indiana Division curves through the Ohio River valley on an almost level gradient. In the next 17 miles between Lawrenceburg…
Train second SY-2
The 2378 drifts down Guilford Hill at Code with Second 90, an Indianapolis-Sharon run. (The hill is identified by the name of the little town about 5 1/2 miles upgrade from Lawrenceburg Junction.) This rolling, wooded section of Southeastern Indiana…
Train no. KI-2
Following in the wake of no. 416 pictured on the preceding page was KI-2, a pickup run from Kankakee to Indianapolis known as the 'Daylighter'. Its modest consist of 42 cars was hustled down the tangent west of town by a grimy L-2, no. 2821.…
Train no. CC-1
As she shouldered the 51-car load of no. 95, the 2815 was panned on the straightaway west of Indianapolis, and she obligingly erupted with a plume of black smoke. In the course of accelerating out of the terminal, the engine was being 'hooked up',…
Train no. CC-1
With the caboose markers 69 cars back just about clear of Lebanon, the engineer on manifest no. 95 'widens on her' for the resumption of normal progress westward. 'Her' is L-2 no. 2877, and she was undoubtedly flexing her iron-horse sinews in…
Extra east headed to eastern Kentucky
In open country just west of Clarks Hill, the 2800 wheels 69 empty L&N hoppers up the slight eastbound grade. Running as a Sheff turn out of Indianapolis, Extra 2800 is a key part of the operation of moving Eastern Kentucky coal to the U.S. Steel Co.…
Train no. 81
Number 81, a pickup run from Indianapolis to Kankakee, eases through the depot at Lafayette behind L-2 no. 2847. The train continued across the Wabash River bridge, just west of the depot, then stopped after about 35 of its 59 cars had gone by. This…
Extra west
Up the hill and around the next curve from West Lafayette is an uncluttered location known to the Nickel Plate as Summit. Despite its Dame, it is not at the top of the grade out of Lafayette; it is merely where the maximum rate of ascent of 55 feet…
Train no. CA-5 headed for Cairo
The 2825 pulls past the depot at Mount Carmel, headed into the yard with train CA-5 southbound. This symbol, with variations, covers all manifest services from Chicago to Cairo, which amount to very little - a train a day for the Indiana Division at…
Train no. BF-9
Just beyond Mount Jackson, the Illinois Division main line passes - through a succession of new developments and trailer camps known as Eagle Creek. There are no industries in this section, and Eagle Creek in the timecard signifies only a water…
#2802 coming into yard
The section of the Belt Railway west of Belt crossing is as busy or even busier than the section just shown east of the crossing. In the scene above, train CC-1, bound for Kankakee, is pulling out on this part of the Belt for the trip around town,…
Double heading on train no. Springfield 91
The wye last mentioned in the preceding footnote is, for obvious reasons, dubbed the icehouse wye. In addition to yard cuts bound to and from Middle or East Hill and Brightwood, its principal users are the Springfield branch trains, namely the locals…
Train no. CC-1
The section of the Belt Railway west of Belt crossing is as busy or even busier than the section just shown east of the crossing. In the scene above, train CC-1, bound for Kankakee, is pulling out on this part of the Belt for the trip around town,…