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4-6-2 CCC&StL #6537 at Columbus, OH
Directors special
2-8-2 #2351 at Elkhart, IN
at the coal tower
0-8-0 #7725 at Chatham, NY
on B&A, blt. 4/1921 as B&A #53, reno. 1951
Steam M&E Train #6001 at Union Depot, Indianapolis, IN
Train no. 473
Train no. 405
Number 405 hustles through the interlocking at KD behind the quickening beats of the 5291. The track in the center foreground is the B&o main, which joins and absorbs the eastward main of the P&E at KD and continues to IJ, representing the B&O's…
Local train no. 419
Number 419 follows an unusually filthy J-1, no. 5402, across the White River bridge at the outset of its leisurely run to Chicago. Though about two years elapsed between the making of this picture and the removal of the train from the schedule, the…
Train no. 3, westbound "James Whitcomb Riley"
The selection of the name for its Cincinnati-Chicago streamliner was a fortunate one for the NYC. There is a great deal of what is called "local pride" in Indiana (through which the train of course makes most of its run, and from whose citizens it…
Train no. 415
Although in the present version of the timetable the schedule and consit of no. 415 have been altered considerably, in the fall of 1954 it was due out of Cincinnati only 45 minutes after the "Riley". It then followed the latter to Chicago on a slower…
Train no. 3, westbound "James Whitcomb Riley"
Number 3, the westbound "Riley", heads towards the depot over the IU between East Street and Virginia Avenue. The B&O freighthouse is beyond the paved area below the elevation on the right. The track in the foreground is the NYC freighthouse lead,…
Front view, at coal tower
Even the bright Memorial Day sunshine could not dissipate the atmosphere of decay which casts an inevitable pall over Shelby Street. Weathered structures, rusting machinery, twisted rails, littered grounds - all combine to suggest that here is the…
More steam than diesel, coal tower in background
The adjectives “gray", "dull", and "dreary” employed in the last footnote are perfectly suited to Shelby Street roundhouse and its environs. When in Indianapolis, the battered remnants of the NYC'S steam fleet come here for servicing and for whatever…
Train no. 416
Though she had doubtless had her moments of triumph, too, the 5291, shown here on no. 416 near English Avenue, was decrepit and despised in the days of her assignment to the Big Four. Needless to say, this short-winded old racer was not to be…
Train no. 416
The tangent on the Cincinnati line between English Avenue and Belt crossing was the setting for this picture and the one following. On this stretch, eastbound passenger trains begin picking up the pace for the fast run to Shelbyville, and eastbound…
Train no. CC-1
The section of the Belt Railway west of Belt crossing is as busy or even busier than the section just shown east of the crossing. In the scene above, train CC-1, bound for Kankakee, is pulling out on this part of the Belt for the trip around town,…