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Water column #2998 at Wesleyville, PA
Water column near mainline coal dock
Valley Run
High Street, the main business thoroughfare of Springfield, crosses over the Sandusky Division tracks just east of the wye at Linden Avenue. This picture was made from the High Street bridge as the regular section of the Valley Run pulled up the…
Train Wreck #2950 at Detroit, MI
At coal dock after wreck.
Train VG from LV bridge
This long drag freight had crept up behind the Sperry rail-detector car referred to in the caption on the preceding page, and had caught a caution block at the signal bridge visible here in the background. The engine is no.2997, one of 300 L-2 class…
Train TL-2
Manifest freight TL-2, the Central's prime service to its prominent automotive customers in Lansing, arrives in that city behind 4-8-2 2973. A portion of the train's 69-car consist originated in Stanley yard at Toledo, and the balance was added at…
Train no. KI-2
Taken on the same morning and in almost the same spot as the previous picture, this one shows an extra east pulling through town behind a dirt-caked L-2, the 2936. The plume in the background indicates, as before, excessive steam pressure on the yard…
Train no. CC-1
The 2947 on CC-1 spares nothing or no one as she fogs magnificently through the west end of town with 35 loads and 21. empties. The wires receiving the brunt of this treatment furnish juice for the West 10th Street car line. The interlocking here at…
Train no. CC-1
A variety of important functions are performed by the operator who sits in the innocuous little shack serving as the office at KD (a corner of this building is visible at the extreme left, above), Among these functions are the control of B&O…
Train DJ-5
Mohawk type 2993 leads DJ-5, a Detroit-Joliet run oriented towards Santa Fe, Rock Island, and GM&O connections at Joliet, out of Junction Yard onto the westbound main. The bridges in the background carry Miller Road (from whence the crossovers at…
switchtender shanty in view
As this picture clearly indicates, the yards at Bellefontaine, Ohio, are largely set into a rural landscape of rolling fields and woodlands. The country backdrop, which is unusual in the environs of the principal terminals on the Big Four and for…
Steam Freight Train #2999 at Rochester, NY
Eastbound freight train in snow
Steam Freight Train #2999 at Rochester, NY
Eastbound freight train in snow
Steam Freight Train #2999 at Geneva, NY
Freight north on big curve
Steam Freight Train #2998 at Cleveland, OH
On Lakefront line