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Train TL-2
Manifest freight TL-2, the Central's prime service to its prominent automotive customers in Lansing, arrives in that city behind 4-8-2 2973. A portion of the train's 69-car consist originated in Stanley yard at Toledo, and the balance was added at…
X3100 West helper
Helper 7526 will be cut away from extra 3100 west on the fly just around the curve. The train will pick up speed quickly behind the agile 4-8-2 on the first leg of its 190-mile run to the IHB's Gibson yard in Hammond, Indiana. The prosaic 0-8-0 will…
Extra west
A short but stiff grade beginning just west of Jackson station and extending westward through a residential area of the city lifts the main line out of the valley of the Grand River. Steam-powered freight trains of any consequence got rear-end…
Train NJ-2
Coach yard, main tracks, freight running tracks, house tracks and freight house appear from left to right in this scene looking east from Jackson passenger station. NJ-2 continues toward Jackson yard on the eastbound freight runner. Hand operated…
Train NJ-2
The Jackson-Kalamazoo segment of the Michigan Central main line between Detroit and Chicago serves a multitude of industries, particularly at Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. One of the services geared to these customers is NJ-2, a pickup run out of Niles…
Train JK-1
This scene of Jackson passenger station and environs is enlivened by JK-1, the westbound Jackson-Kalamazoo local, rattling through behind H-5 class 2-8-2 no. 1459. Directly ahead of the 1459 is the westbound home signal at Pearl Street interlocking,…
Botsford Turn
This is the west end of Jackson yard, with Mohawk 3100 departing on a 58-car Botsford (Kalamazoo) turn. At the rear end, a U-3 switcher is coupled on for assistance on the one-mile grade west of the depot. The main line passes to the north of the…
Train DJ-5
Mohawk type 2993 leads DJ-5, a Detroit-Joliet run oriented towards Santa Fe, Rock Island, and GM&O connections at Joliet, out of Junction Yard onto the westbound main. The bridges in the background carry Miller Road (from whence the crossovers at…
Steam freight train
Peerless Portland Cement Co.Marl train in Michigan
Steam freight train at Beaver, PA
P&LE train
Solid Coal at Toledo, OH
Coal train at Toledo coal dock. Picture from Toledo Blade.
Steam Freight Train at Auburndale, MA
Boston bound train at speed passing Riverside Jct.
Steam freight train
On the B&A
Steam freight train
On the B&A