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4-8-2 #3123 at Albany, NY
Departing Selkirk Yard.next to mast mounted searchlight signal
AC Tower, semaphore signal bridge and connecting tracks
The Erie operators in AC tower at Marion control, during Lake shipping season, about as heavy an aggregate of rail tonnage as can be found passing one spot anywhere in the United States. At any time of year, business for them is very brisk, involving…
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…
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…
Caboose #20080 at Ft, Junction, NY
Showing NY-8 rear view includes wood caboose
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…
Coal drag north
Pointed in the opposite direction, but in the same spot from which the picture on the preceding page was made, the camera caught Mohawks 2523 and 2525 heading 78 loads of coal out of the yard at Corning. The pace was a tortuous 5 m.p.h., since there…
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,…
Departing eastbound
Back in May, 1949, still in the same spot but with the camera pointed west toward the yard, we see L-3 3047 opening up out of the eastbound advance yard with a 107-car eastbound symbol. This location is known as Minoa, from the village of the same…
DL&W 2 car freight pulled by 2-8-0
The Lackawanna's Owego-Ithaca branch was the second railroad chartered in New York State(1834 ) and the fourth to be opened to the public. It originally made use of two inclined planes for the drop into Ithaca, but a switchback has long since been…
DL&W 4-8-4
This is a Lackawanna westbound freight about to cross over the Pennsylvania tracks at Horseheads on the bridge pictured on the previous page. The snorting locomotive on the head-end is 4-8-4 no.1650,working hard to get up speed only a few miles out…
DL&W 4-8-4
The Erie's branch from Corning to Attica via Avon and Batavia connects the B&H with the outside world, but its one-freight-daily-except-Sundays character kept it from being of much interest during the stopover at Bath. The paralleling Lackawanna…
DL&W 4-8-4 pulling westbound freight
Highly polished and gleaming with a coat of fresh paint, the Lackawanna's no.1633 4-8-4 type steps out of the yards at Elmira, N.Y., with a 43-car cut of westbound freight. She was breaking in at the time after a thorough overhaul at the Scranton…
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…