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Extra east headed to eastern Kentucky
In open country just west of Clarks Hill, the 2800 wheels 69 empty L&N hoppers up the slight eastbound grade. Running as a Sheff turn out of Indianapolis, Extra 2800 is a key part of the operation of moving Eastern Kentucky coal to the U.S. Steel Co.…
B Line pusher on L&N cut at Hartwell Ave.
Another kind of across-the-river transfer, one equally if not more interesting than the NYC version, is the one handled by the power and crew of either of the south-bank operators, the L&N or the C&O. The sight of an L&N or C&O train on NYC rails is…
E&I extra north
In its passage through Terre Haute enroute to the junction point with the main line just west of the depot, the E&I traverses the highly-industrialized southwest side of town and, in so doing, establishes the NYC in the healthy position it enjoys…
E&I extra north passing the depot
Up from Petersburg with 55 L&N hoppers of Gary coal, the 1970 blasts past the depot at Terre Haute on the last lap into the terminal at Duane. The rear end of the train should be coming off the E&I, rounding the curve which was visible in part in the…
Flipper' passing interlocking tower (on stilts)
A cut of 44 Gary coal trails the 2932 here as she shotguns her way through Terre Haute bound for Midland, 22 miles west on the main line and junction point of the latter with the Chicago-Cairo line. The C&EI tracks run parallel to the NYC in the…
Train no. CE-1
At YD, two miles south of the depot at Mount Carmel, the Cairo line splits into two segments. One heads southwest to Cairo through the rolling country of southern Illinois, and the other curves abruptly southeast to Evansville through the Wabash…
Coal drag north out of PRR yard
Forty-five hundred Alco horses grumble out of the Pennsylvania's Southport Yard at Elmira with 79 cars, mostly coal loads, bound for De Witt Yard at Syracuse. Theirs is a circuitous route which takes them north through Horseheads, Watkins Glen,…
Empty hopper train south
Most of the New York Central's Pennsylvania Division runs are coal drags going north and empties returning south, though there is a considerable amount of miscellaneous freight interchanged with the Reading at Newberry,Pa. Above is a typical…
Pusher on empty hopper train
The 2609 on the preceding page needed help from the 2655 (above) on this heavy grade, even though the train was a fairly light string of empties (they run up to 140). The two Mohawks are Lima built in 1918, members of the L-1 class, and are rarely…
Switch run south
The NYC local freight above makes a round-trip daily between Corning and Dresden, N.Y., and is shown chuffing slowly uphill on its southward lap at Himrod Junction. Its power is a trim light USRA Mikado, no.1848, which is one of almost 150 such…
PRR I-1sa 2-10-0
This Pennsy class I-1sa 2-10-0 type, no.4348, was caught hustling downgrade at Himrod Junction with 90 empty hopper cars jostling behind. The head-end crew is lined up for a stare at the photographer, with the customary mixture of mirth and…
Drag south
Thru Dundee,N.Y., there is a short break in the otherwise sustained southward upgrade from Dresden past Watkins Glen station, on the New York Central's Pennsylvania Division. Above is Mohawk type no.2622, throttle wide, charging thru Dundee at 40…
Coal drag north
Pointed in the opposite direction, but in the same spot from which the picture on the preceding page was made, the camera caught Mohawks 2523 and 2525 heading 78 loads of coal out of the yard at Corning. The pace was a tortuous 5 m.p.h., since there…
solid coal #2785 at Geneva, NY
Coal drag by GY, tower in view
Four GP-7s pulling through 'Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania'
The most rugged terrain traversed by the NYC in Pennsylvania (and perhaps anywhere) lies between Jersey Shore and Lawrenceville, This is a segment of the main line between Lyons and Newberry Junction referred to locally as the 'Fallbrook' because of…