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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,…
Train no. CC-1
With the caboose markers 69 cars back just about clear of Lebanon, the engineer on manifest no. 95 'widens on her' for the resumption of normal progress westward. 'Her' is L-2 no. 2877, and she was undoubtedly flexing her iron-horse sinews in…
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',…
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…
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.…
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 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 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,…
Train first SY-2
Greensburg, 62 miles west of Cincinnati and 47 miles east of Indianapolis, is the operational midpoint of the Indiana Division main line between those cities. As a steam terminal, it had water, sand, a coal dock, an ash pit, and a single-stall…
Train first BF-1
The photographs in this album are arranged as nearly as possible in an east-to-west sequence, and the first twenty-two of them were taken along the Cleveland - St. Louis route through town - that is, inbound on the Ohio Division and outbound on the…
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…
Train DSL-1
From Sandusky Street bridge, the camera looks down upon one of the busiest spots in the entire terminal at a typically busy moment. In the foreground, L-3a No. 3000 eases off the BN lead onto the westbound main with the 69 cars of manifest DSL-1, out…
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…
Train DH-3 nearing James St.
As this album comes to its end, we leave East Syracuse, N.Y., to the 126 tune of shouting whistles and clanking drawbars, hoping to return before the age of diesels, with the disenchantment of its standardization and internal power, removes the real…