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3 views side, angle and end of 40' flat car,Nov 1923,steel with wood planking,staff bk whl,Archbar tks, undercar struts, reblt from boxcars

The retarder tower at the heavy hump offers this view of the heavy hump yard, the main line, and the light hump yard, looking from right to left. The location of the engine terminal with its 30-stall roundhouse is marked by the coal dock and…

Engine 1971 is shown here shoving a typical cut - L&N coal - up the heavy hump. This cut is on the scale track, but is being switched to the lead (in the foreground, below) farther up the hill. The nine-track eastbound receiving yard in the…

The heavy hump lead as it descends from the apex of the hump appears in the foreground of this picture, taken from the retarder tower. The operator here controls all retarders and switches on the heavy hump - a total of one master retarder (in the…

The second floor of the main yard office at Sharon was also the vantage point for this picture. Looking in the opposite direction (west, or south), the view is of the 30-track westbound classification yard, known as the "light hump yard". (The…

The Cincinnati Terminal operation is one of the most interesting of all on the New York Central System - a large statement, of course, because the Central's big terminals are many and varied in the numerous cities it enters. The operation at…