Browse Items (769 total)
Sort by:
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…
Transfer westbound at Hartwell Ave.
This picture was taken from Hartwell Avenue overpass just below Lockland, a suburb about three miles west of Sharon. (Lockland has sufficient industry to warrant the services of a yard engine, which is dispatched from Sharon six days a week in the…
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…
Extra east headed to eastern Kentucky
In open country just west of Clarks Hill, the 2800 wheels 69 empty L&N hoppers up the slight eastbound grade. Running as a Sheff turn out of Indianapolis, Extra 2800 is a key part of the operation of moving Eastern Kentucky coal to the U.S. Steel Co.…
L&N transfer at Ivorydale
Among the most interesting of the Cincinnati Terminal operations and in the days of steam especially, by far the most dramatic are the across-the-river transfers. The interest stems from the unusual nature of the transfers; the normal concept of a…
B Line pusher on L&N cut at Hartwell Ave.
Another kind of across-the-river transfer, one equally if not more interesting than the NYC version, is the one handled by the power and crew of either of the south-bank operators, the L&N or the C&O. The sight of an L&N or C&O train on NYC rails is…
Riverside-Sharon transfer eastbound at Hartwell Ave.
Compared with the across-the-river transfers, the inter-yard transfers are much less spectacular and not quite as interesting, but they are just as important in a different respect. Their average consists are shorter and include very little coal,…
Extra west
Up the hill and around the next curve from West Lafayette is an uncluttered location known to the Nickel Plate as Summit. Despite its Dame, it is not at the top of the grade out of Lafayette; it is merely where the maximum rate of ascent of 55 feet…
Mattoon Extra at Indianapolis, IN
The relatively small part of this volume devoted to the Illinois Division does not, of course, give nearly as comprehensive a picture of latter-day steam operations as did the Indiana Division section. Not that stean capitulated early on the Illinois…
E&I extra north
In its passage through Terre Haute enroute to the junction point with the main line just west of the depot, the E&I traverses the highly-industrialized southwest side of town and, in so doing, establishes the NYC in the healthy position it enjoys…
E&I extra north passing the depot
Up from Petersburg with 55 L&N hoppers of Gary coal, the 1970 blasts past the depot at Terre Haute on the last lap into the terminal at Duane. The rear end of the train should be coming off the E&I, rounding the curve which was visible in part in the…
Flipper' passing interlocking tower (on stilts)
A cut of 44 Gary coal trails the 2932 here as she shotguns her way through Terre Haute bound for Midland, 22 miles west on the main line and junction point of the latter with the Chicago-Cairo line. The C&EI tracks run parallel to the NYC in the…
Train no. CE-1
At YD, two miles south of the depot at Mount Carmel, the Cairo line splits into two segments. One heads southwest to Cairo through the rolling country of southern Illinois, and the other curves abruptly southeast to Evansville through the Wabash…
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…
On local freight "B-line switch run"
H-5 class 2-8-2 no. 1576, a longtime member of the Big Four steam fraternity, hustles out of Indianapolis with the Ohio Division local freight to South Anderson and return. When this was taken, the 1576 was a veteran of a creditable forty years'…