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4-8-4 #6008
Builder photo
Train no. 407
S-1 no. 6017 is shown above gathering speed just west of Short Line Junction with the 12 cars of no. 407, the afternoon train to Saint Louis. The eastbound home signals and the tower itself are visible less than a mile away. No. 407, of course, has…
Train no. 446
Number 446's eleven cars are hefted upgrade out of Bellefontaine in the early morning by Niagara 6005. The train is passing BN yard (the boxcars on the right are on track 1). Of the three yards which constitute the freight terminal here, BN is the…
Right front 3/4 view
Here, at Shelby Street, backed in on top of the 3148 on a 'dead' track, is the last of the largest - S-1 4-8-4 no. 6015. This engine remained in service almost a year after the retirement of her twenty-five sisters. The reason for this oddity was…
Close up of BoxPox drivers and valve gear components
No need to identify the owner of those sleek rods and nighty drivers. Her principal specifications are as follows: class, S-1b; cylinders, 25x32 in.; drivers, 79. in.; pressure, 275 lbs.; tractive effort, 62,500 lbs.; weight, 471,000 lbs.; and…
Train no. 421
Trackage rights have been previously stated to be an integral part of the Cincinnati Terminal operation. Nothing could be more true, because the double track of the B&O west of Ivorydale Junction is a: lifeline over which passes nearly all of the…
Train no. 473 taking water
Niagara 6009 gets a refill at Terre Haute on her way from Cleveland to Mattoon on mail-and-express no. 473. The sixteen-car train is cut behind the ninth car to allow traffic to pass on Seventh Street, at the far end of the platform. This picture was…
Train second SY-2 passing target signal
The departure of 2/SY-2 from East Hill in the early afternoon is always an occasion of some significance, especially in lean times when there are often only three freight trains daily from Indianapolis to Cincinnati - 1/SY-2 around 6:00 AM, 2/SY-2,…
at coal tower
Coaling up after her arrival from Sharon on CC-1, the 6015 squeezes her imperious carriage into the squalid confines of Shelby Street.. The 6015 was a special engine in at least several respects. To begin with, she was the last to get "the works" at…
#6015, #7815 and water column in view
Leota street divides the coal dock and storage area of the engine terminal at Shelby Street from the rest of the facilities - the water plugs, ash pits, machine shop, power house, turntable, and the roundhouse itself. Except where it is crossed by…
Train X-35 and train no. 379
At Fillmore Street, the extreme west end of the terminal interlocking, the leads from Lindy and Curtiss Street yards converge and join the mains, which total six here and are numbered, from right to left, 6-5-2-1-4-3. The multiple trackage makes it…
Train no. 137
The six-track main extending west from the terminal divides at tower 50, one and three-tenths miles from tower 49. In the interim, it is bisected by a single-track line of the Pennsylvania, which runs from their yards to their freighthouse and sundry…
Double headed train no. 122 under both semaphore and searchlight signal bridge
This steam-wreathed Niagara, in charge of mail and express train no. 122, is swinging onto the six-track tangent which leads from tower 50 directly to Central Terminal. Since no. 122 will be yarded in Curtiss Street, on the north side of the mains,…