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4-8-2 #2976 at Clyde, NY
Westbound
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…
Right front 3/4 view
Begrimed no. 2936 above, a class L-2d engine, differs very little from her 'cousin' of class L-2c, the 2803 just pictured. Both have the following specifications: cylinders, 27x30 in.; drivers, 69 in.; pressure, 225 lbs.; tractive force, 60, 620…
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…
Drag west
The 2976 eases 78 cars of westbound drag freight through the interlocking at Beech Grove, the easternmost limit of the Indianapolis terminal area. The operator here, located in a tower behind and to the left of the camera, has the route lined from…
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…
Flipper' passing interlocking tower (on stilts)
A cut of 44 Gary coal trails the 2932 here as she shotguns her way through Terre Haute bound for Midland, 22 miles west on the main line and junction point of the latter with the Chicago-Cairo line. The C&EI tracks run parallel to the NYC in the…
Extra south taking coal
The so-called 'Cairo' line of the Big Four, running for 260 miles from Danville to Cairo, has stagnated badly in the years since World War II. Its greatest glory, of course, was during the seven month period in 1943 when the 'Big Inch' pipeline…
Duane Turn
This picture represents a departure from the steady westward progress thus far maintained in the sequence of pictures. Along with several others, it is included to illustrate the operation of NYC freight trains over the belt line of the Indianapolis…
#3137 and #3125 also in view
Whether or not a person is readily fascinated by the steam locomotive, he is more apt to be impressed by a cluster of these dirty brutes around a roundhouse than by an equal number of diesels at a service station. Indeed, he is compelled to be…
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 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 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…
On outbound engine tracks
This isn't something out of Hollywood, nor does it mean that the NYC has extended its operations into desert territory; it is an outgoing engine track at the East Syracuse terminal, smoke from which darkens an otherwise unclouded evening sky. Engine…
Steam Freight Train #2963 at Syracuse, NY
Freight east on Lake Line, livestock up front