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Yard, 0-8-8-0 #7099 at Syracuse, NY
Pushing cars up to DeWitt hump
yard #7527 at Jackson, MI
Approaching road crossing
yard #7439 at Elkhart, IN
Eastbound freight at 10th St.
yard #1459 at Jackson, MI
Wood cabosses in background
X3100 West helper
Helper 7526 will be cut away from extra 3100 west on the fly just around the curve. The train will pick up speed quickly behind the agile 4-8-2 on the first leg of its 190-mile run to the IHB's Gibson yard in Hammond, Indiana. The prosaic 0-8-0 will…
X west on Lake Line near James St.
The photographer had only to do an about-face after the passing of the drag pictured on the preceding page to get this shot of the NYC's no.2745, pulling out of DeWitt Yards with 74 high cars behind. The rear end of this train is just about abreast…
work B&A #589 at Kingston, NY
Eastbound work train
work #4569 at Peekskill, NY
Westbound along Hudson River
Wood Cupola #20080 at Ft. Junction, NY
Rear angle view in EB freight train #8
Westbound freight using passenger main
Reading from right to left, the NYC's mainline track scheme as shown by this photograph goes as follows: track one, eastbound passenger; track two, westbound passenger; track three, westbound freight, and track four, eastbound freight. This train was…
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…
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…
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 VG on track3
It is a common sight to see two and even three trains passing simultaneously on this busy four-track artery. Here is extra 3142 west, a train made up of mostly empties in Selkirk Yard southwest of Albany, passing extra 2796 east with mostly loaded…