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The aforementioned DeWitt yard and its approaches will be the subject of the next twenty photographs, an emphasis in keeping with the importance of this colossus of freight classification. Train XN-2 from Buffalo is shown here at Thompson Road on the…

Back in May, 1949, still in the same spot but with the camera pointed west toward the yard, we see L-3 3047 opening up out of the eastbound advance yard with a 107-car eastbound symbol. This location is known as Minoa, from the village of the same…

Motive-power progress is evident at the same location in February, 1953, as F-7 units 1806 and 1805 ease the 87 loads and 34 empties of 2/LS-1 towards the westbound receiving yard. This was before the shift in emphasis from tractive effort to…

Five tracks funnel traffic in and out of DeWitt on the east. From right to left, they are numbered 2, 1, 3, 4, and 6. The first two are high-speed passenger mains bypassing the yard, the next two are freight mains, and track six is used as both an…

Light engines west in snow