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An overflow of Collinwood traffic
An overflow of Collinwood traffic, which Bellefontaine made up into a 73-car train and symboled A/BC-4 (a designation reserved for such once- or bi-weekly occasions when business is too heavy for the regular manifests) is hustled east through Marion…
2nd train MC-4, interlocking tower in background
First HC-4, an overnight pickup run from Cincinnati, is wrestled uphill past the high tower and the depot by engine 3026. Part of the train has been set out at Gest yard, and the remaining 48 cars will end their journey in East yard. In this respect,…
Train second SY-2, tri-color signal masts in view
From the west window of the tower at Greensburg, the view includes, from right to left, the westward siding, the main track, the eastward siding, and the Michigan District main track as it curves southward towards North Vernon and Louisville. The…
Train no. 71 next to yard engine
Greensburg is one of those railroad junctions where periods of intense activity marked by crackling exhausts and clashing drawbars are interspersed with doldrums when a farmer's tractor and a few twittering birds are the only disturbers of the peace.…
Train LS-6 taking water, livestock car behind tender
Fast freight LS-6 pauses at Dayton for water on its morning run from Cincinnati to Bellefontaine. The 3043 is trailing a manifest-length train of 56 cars, including three stock on the head end. When this picture was made, Dayton yard had been…
Train BF-5
After setting off 25 empty 40x10s in Moraine yard, train BP-5 moves down the westbound main behind the 3027. The consist, which has been reduced to 22 cars, will be filled out with about 50 loads from the Frigidaire plant. The yard at Moraine consist…
Train BF-5
After picking up at Middletown, train BF-5, headed by the 3043, eases through the depot on the last lap of its work-filled run from Bellefontaine to Cincinnati. This train, also known as no. 193, is the principal through pickup run on this part of…
Awaiting assignment at the terminal
Though Shelby Street is hardly the foreground an Indianapolis booster would choose for a photograph intended to lure travelers, it is a fact that a reasonable view of the city's downtown section is available from the tracks east of Leota Street. Of…
Eastbound freight on track 4
Canastota is a typical small manufacturing town of upper New York State, located twenty-one miles east of Syracuse on the main line of the New York Central. The photographer spent six hours in this vicinity one sunny day of May, 1949, and took the…
Train VE by roundhouse
Engine 3049 of the L-3b class Mohawk type heads west into the evening sun, with her 72-car train inching out of DeWitt Yards behind her. Freight tracks here run in an alley formed by the engine terminal on the right and the village of East Syracuse…
Train VEG across Clark St., East Syracuse, NY
Clark Street in East Syracuse is doubtless one of the most often blocked grade crossings in New York State. Five tracks cross it: four freight mains leading to and from DeWitt Yards, with important crossovers necessitating slow speed and frequent…
Train DH-3 nearing James St.
As this album comes to its end, we leave East Syracuse, N.Y., to the 126 tune of shouting whistles and clanking drawbars, hoping to return before the age of diesels, with the disenchantment of its standardization and internal power, removes the real…
Steam Freight Train #3033 at Shelby, OH
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Steam Freight Train #3048 at Beech Grove, Indianapolis, IN
Louisville SY-2
