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2nd train MC-4, interlocking tower in background
First HC-4, an overnight pickup run from Cincinnati, is wrestled uphill past the high tower and the depot by engine 3026. Part of the train has been set out at Gest yard, and the remaining 48 cars will end their journey in East yard. In this respect,…
Train DSL-1 being switched by a Mikado
Until just recently, DSL-1 was handled at Bellefontaine in almost the exact reverse of the manner in which its eastbound counterpart, SLD-2, is still handled. As shown in the preceding photograph, the train was pulled past the tower on the northbound…
Extra west, third section of NY-6
Engine 1982 walks a 69-car third section of NY-6 (a "symboled extra") upgrade out of Brightwood yard, eastbound on the 25-mile tangent, which extends from Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis to Pendleton. Mikados of the H-7 class such as the one…
Valley Run, crossing guard in view
In the same location, but moving in the opposite direction, the eastbound Advance Valley Run is shown here pulling through downtown Springfield on its way to the yard, one mile east. The power is another L-3, no. 3058, and there are 42 cars. Once…
Train no. CC-3, coal tower and interlocking tower (on stilts) in view
Westbound manifest CC-3, 68 cars behind L-3c 4-8-2 no. 3062, whistles through Greensburg at the maximum 40 MPH. The tower here controls the crossing of the main line and the Michigan District, and also governs main line movements at the end of double…
Train second SY-2, tri-color signal masts in view
From the west window of the tower at Greensburg, the view includes, from right to left, the westward siding, the main track, the eastward siding, and the Michigan District main track as it curves southward towards North Vernon and Louisville. The…
Train no. 71 next to yard engine
Greensburg is one of those railroad junctions where periods of intense activity marked by crackling exhausts and clashing drawbars are interspersed with doldrums when a farmer's tractor and a few twittering birds are the only disturbers of the peace.…
27 car Greensburg switch run
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…
Wabash switcher pulling out of yard
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…
Train BF-5
After setting off 25 empty 40x10s in Moraine yard, train BP-5 moves down the westbound main behind the 3027. The consist, which has been reduced to 22 cars, will be filled out with about 50 loads from the Frigidaire plant. The yard at Moraine consist…
Train LS-6, watermelon car behind tender
One eastbound manifest which highballs past Moraine is LS-6, shown here wheeling into the plant area at the west end behind engine 3000. This fast symbol train of long standing on the Big Four is known locally as the "Lamb Run", or the "Lamb" for…
Train no. 74, depot in view
Her whistle screaming in reproach to a venturesome motorist, the 3115 talks it up at Anderson depot on her way through town with no. 74. Her train, including sizeable Marion and Wabash groups on the head end, consists of 55 loads and 10 empties…
CN extra south
This weary-looking H-6 equipped with blade pilot was called out of Van Wert some ten hours previous as Extra 6321 south on the Cincinnati Northern. It emerged from the CN's wilderness of manual blocks signals and wavering iron onto the main line at…
Train no. KI-2
Following in the wake of no. 416 pictured on the preceding page was KI-2, a pickup run from Kankakee to Indianapolis known as the 'Daylighter'. Its modest consist of 42 cars was hustled down the tangent west of town by a grimy L-2, no. 2821.…
Train no. CC-1
As she shouldered the 51-car load of no. 95, the 2815 was panned on the straightaway west of Indianapolis, and she obligingly erupted with a plume of black smoke. In the course of accelerating out of the terminal, the engine was being 'hooked up',…