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4-8-2 #3148 at Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN
Timken rods and bearings ft engineer's side
4-8-4 #6015 at Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN
Cab, left side
4-6-4 #5363 at Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN
Cab and gangway
4-6-4 #5437 at Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN
Right front 3/4 from rear
engine terminal #3148 at Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN
Engine terminal, ash hoist in view
engine terminal #3125, #3130 at Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN
Engine terminal
Back wall from Cedar St.
The most blatantly outdated facility of the Shelby Street engine terminal is of course its roundhouse. Even if the diesel revolution had not occurred, this ancient structure should surely have been up for retirement, since it falls far short of being…
Moving whitelined H-6a #5399, ready for scrap, off turntable, roundhouse in background
This picture is the last one taken in Shelby Street engine terminal. Its content signifies another aspect of finality, namely the last, Iugubrious run of a condemned steam engine, the trip to the scrap yard, usually made in the most humiliating…
On turntable
Dieselization of the yards at East St. Louis and East Alton in. March of 1956 bumped a dozen U-3 switchers out of their jobs. Because a few of the diesels used to effect this changeover were taken from the Indianapolis terminal, some of the displaced…
On turntable. Ex B&A #50
When business is good, Shelby Street is the scene of a great deal of activity, and even in slack periods, the amount of work done here is far out of proportion to the pitifully small force employed. For many years, layoffs at Shelby Street have been…
#3137 and #3125 also in view
Whether or not a person is readily fascinated by the steam locomotive, he is more apt to be impressed by a cluster of these dirty brutes around a roundhouse than by an equal number of diesels at a service station. Indeed, he is compelled to be…
#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…