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Train no. ON-2
Though the main attraction - the motive power is very different, there is otherwise a good deal of similarity between this picture and the preceding one. The train is the same (ON-2), the consist is about the same (26 cars bere vs. 32 before,…
Duane Turn
This picture represents a departure from the steady westward progress thus far maintained in the sequence of pictures. Along with several others, it is included to illustrate the operation of NYC freight trains over the belt line of the Indianapolis…
Train no. SLD-8
The camera is facing west here along the same stretch of Belt.! right-of-way occupied by the Duane turn in the preceding picture. (The track in the lower left foreground is the IC connection.) The L-4 above, no. 3135, is straining against an SLB-8 of…
Train second SY-2 passing target signal
The departure of 2/SY-2 from East Hill in the early afternoon is always an occasion of some significance, especially in lean times when there are often only three freight trains daily from Indianapolis to Cincinnati - 1/SY-2 around 6:00 AM, 2/SY-2,…
Double heading on train no. Springfield 91
The wye last mentioned in the preceding footnote is, for obvious reasons, dubbed the icehouse wye. In addition to yard cuts bound to and from Middle or East Hill and Brightwood, its principal users are the Springfield branch trains, namely the locals…
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
A variety of important functions are performed by the operator who sits in the innocuous little shack serving as the office at KD (a corner of this building is visible at the extreme left, above), Among these functions are the control of B&O…
Train no. CC-1
As she pulls up on the fill at Meridian Street and Bluff Road on the Belt, the 2803 erupts with a most photogenic plume of exhaust, as if to notify the world at large that she is in charge of a sizeable cut of revenue freight. At the same time, she…
Train no. CC-1
The 2947 on CC-1 spares nothing or no one as she fogs magnificently through the west end of town with 35 loads and 21. empties. The wires receiving the brunt of this treatment furnish juice for the West 10th Street car line. The interlocking here at…
Train no. CC-3
This concluding picture, taken shortly after the preceding one in the same location, illustrates the light train loadings which are all too frequent on the traffic-starved Indiana Division. The freight, handled briskly by L-2 no. 2839, is CC-3, the…
LV Train X5102 going past State Line Tower
Here's the 5102 pictured on the previous page blasting past State Line Tower onto the main line, with her now-complete westbound extra of 106 miscellaneous cars in tow. The train is about to duck under the Erie mainline and a state highway in that…
LV Symbol freight SJ-4 behind 4-8-4 LV #5106
Symbol freight SJ-4 drifts downgrade into Sayre yards behind 4-8-4 no.5106, equipped with a blade pilot. The consist is 78 loads of stock, perishables, and merchandise, which will shortly be engaged in switching skirmishes with 2-8-2 no.379 at far…
Freight south
The New York Central's heavy-duty Pennsylvania Division freight line runs thru hilly country in southern-central New York State, which means severe operating problems for the company and spectacular action shots for the railfan. From Dresden the line…
Pusher on southbound extra
Rear-end action view at Himrod Junction is of a class L-1a Mohawk, no. 2523 (the NYC's first of that type), assisting an 80-car southbound extra in approximately the same spot shown in the preceding photograph. On the head end are Mohawks 2655 and…
Coal drag north out of PRR yard
Forty-five hundred Alco horses grumble out of the Pennsylvania's Southport Yard at Elmira with 79 cars, mostly coal loads, bound for De Witt Yard at Syracuse. Theirs is a circuitous route which takes them north through Horseheads, Watkins Glen,…