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On turntable. Ex B&A #50
When business is good, Shelby Street is the scene of a great deal of activity, and even in slack periods, the amount of work done here is far out of proportion to the pitifully small force employed. For many years, layoffs at Shelby Street have been…
Assisting RF-16s #3815, 3708 on train no. KI-2
During the first half of 1956, there was a sharp reduction in the ranks of steam on the Big Four. At the same time, there was a marked shrinkage of the territory in which the remaining steam power could operate. The most momentous events in the…
Assisting RF-16s #3815, 3708 on train no. KI-2
After setting out at Moorefield, the KI-2 which removed the last steam engine from the "Chi west" (as the Indiana Division between Indianapolis and Kankakee is known) was switched onto the Belt at KD. The more direct route to the Hill, via the depot…
Assisting RF-16s #3815, 3708 on train no. KI-2
This final view of the KI-2 of June 23, 1956, shows the durable L-2 at its head about to clatter across the main line of the Pennsylvania at Woods tower (whose roof appears just above the engine cab) Woods is a mere hundred-odd yards south of BX. The…
Train no. CC-1
As she pulls up on the fill at Meridian Street and Bluff Road on the Belt, the 2803 erupts with a most photogenic plume of exhaust, as if to notify the world at large that she is in charge of a sizeable cut of revenue freight. At the same time, she…
Train no. CC-3
This concluding picture, taken shortly after the preceding one in the same location, illustrates the light train loadings which are all too frequent on the traffic-starved Indiana Division. The freight, handled briskly by L-2 no. 2839, is CC-3, the…
Steam Freight Train #2516, #2881 at Geneva, NY
Freight departing south
Steam Freight Train #2516, #2881 at Geneva, NY
Taking water
4-8-2 #2800 at Schenectady, NY
Builder Photo
