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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. 415
Although in the present version of the timetable the schedule and consit of no. 415 have been altered considerably, in the fall of 1954 it was due out of Cincinnati only 45 minutes after the "Riley". It then followed the latter to Chicago on a slower…
Train no. 405
At Delaware Street, two blocks east of the depot, the 3149 eases no. 405 into the interlocking controlled by "A" tower of the IU. To the left is the Pennsylvania's downtown produce yard. In the left background, one block east at Alabama Street, is…
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 no. 303 about to leave at tri-color signal bridge
The blue flag has been removed, the signal has been received, the board is green, the gates are going down, and the engineer is reaching for the throttle - in short, all indications are that the elephant-eared 3149 is about to whisk the seven cars of…
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 JK-1
This scene of Jackson passenger station and environs is enlivened by JK-1, the westbound Jackson-Kalamazoo local, rattling through behind H-5 class 2-8-2 no. 1459. Directly ahead of the 1459 is the westbound home signal at Pearl Street interlocking,…
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…
Train CC-2 behind Mohawk, Lima switcher and switchtender shanty in view
This is the scene from the opposite side of Sandusky street bridge. on the eastbound main, CC-2, a fast freight between Cincinnati and Toledo, is whisked through town on its way to East yard by the 3064. The Toledo cars were set off in Gest yard, the…
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…
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…
