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Train X448 in depot at Columbus Union station
NYC terminal operations at Columbus, Ohio, are divided, unfortunately, from the standpoints of efficiency and economy, into two supervisory and labor jurisdictions. These are the Ohio Central Division or Line West and, of course, the Ohio Division or…
Train no. 405
Guilford Hill is more of an irritant than an obstacle to passenger trains, and this was just as true in steam days as it is now. Westbound trains make no stops between Cincinnati and Batesville. Maximum speed on the hill westbound is 70 MPH for the…
Train X447
After an interval of about three minutes, the 3107 rolled x-447 out of Springfield depot to meander after no. 303 down to Cincinnati, the final terminal of both trains. The "Cincinnati Division'' between Springfield and Ivorydale Junction in…
On turntable
Number 74’s power, the 3115, backs out on the table at South Anderson. Inside the house are two sister L-4s, the 3132 and 3135, and at Elkhart off no. 74 of the previous day is the 3128. All four were transferred to the Big Four from the Michigan…
Train no. 74, depot in view
Her whistle screaming in reproach to a venturesome motorist, the 3115 talks it up at Anderson depot on her way through town with no. 74. Her train, including sizeable Marion and Wabash groups on the head end, consists of 55 loads and 10 empties…
Train no. 472
A portion of the "skyline" of downtown Indianapolis, dominated by the Merchants Bank building with its overbearing TV antenna, shows here beyond the dog-eared countenance of engine 3113. The latter is heading no. 472 on the complex of Indianapolis…
Train no. BF-9
BX is the interlocking on the west side of Indianapolis where Illinois Division freight trains move on and off the Belt. At this location, the Belt tracks in their swing from the south around to the west side of town assume a north-south course, and…
Train second SY-2 passing Beech Grove Tower (on stilts)
The partially-undressed appearance of Beech Grove tower is typical of most of those on the Big Four. Generally they are weathered clapboard structures squatting or perching on the frailest of legs. : Beech Grove is one which squats, but there are…
Train BF-1 on Lake Line
Four freight-only tracks extend westward from the NYC's DeWitt Yards at East Syracuse and skirt the northern edge of Syracuse, rejoining the passenger main at Solvay, on the western city limits. Over these tracks flows an almost incessant stream of…
4-8-2 #3100
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