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At engine house

Three locos at engine terminal; water column and coal tower in background

Number 74’s power, the 3115, backs out on the table at South Anderson. Inside the house are two sister L-4s, the 3132 and 3135, and at Elkhart off no. 74 of the previous day is the 3128. All four were transferred to the Big Four from the Michigan…

From a point on the aforementioned south wye at South Anderson, the camera in this instance is trained on engine 6344 and her train, the Wabash local. The head brakeman has just thrown the switch at far right, lining the route for the north vye, over…

Here is the 1453 leaving town with the 27-car Greensburg switch run. The track in the foreground is the Anderson belt of the Ohio Division, which is used by practically all freights running between Indianapolis and Bellefontaine. On the eastern edge…

After EMD switchers had bumped them in 1949, thirty-three of the IHB's H-5 class 2-8-2s were transferred down to the Big Four for local freight work. They were identifiable by their injector controls, which were outside the cab, and by their tenders,…

This photograph is the first of a sequence of six referred to in the introduction and taken at Anderson in April of 1956. The scene at South Anderson roundhouse was sad but typical of such places after 'dieselitis' had set in - engines still under…

Headquarters of the Michigan District are at Anderson, about 135 miles from Jeffersonville on the south end and 120 miles from Elkhart on the north end. The yard at South Anderson is under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Division, although it is…