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Train no. BF-9
Just beyond Mount Jackson, the Illinois Division main line passes - through a succession of new developments and trailer camps known as Eagle Creek. There are no industries in this section, and Eagle Creek in the timecard signifies only a water…
Train no. BF-9
BX is the interlocking on the west side of Indianapolis where Illinois Division freight trains move on and off the Belt. At this location, the Belt tracks in their swing from the south around to the west side of town assume a north-south course, and…
Train no. 96 going away
The scene here approximates that of two pages ago, with the camera again trained on the 3000 as she heads into East yard with no. 96 (this picture is a follow-up to the preceding one - same engine, same train, same day). It is interesting to note…
Train no. 96
In steam days, the blasting was prodigious whenever eastbound freights got within earshot of Bellefontaine. The sound effects reached their peak as the trains passed BN yard and the main yard office on their way to East yard, at the extreme eastern…
Train no. 81
Number 81, a pickup run from Indianapolis to Kankakee, eases through the depot at Lafayette behind L-2 no. 2847. The train continued across the Wabash River bridge, just west of the depot, then stopped after about 35 of its 59 cars had gone by. This…
Train no. 73
The blue-flagged 5411 gets another shot of grease at Elkhart while her engineer for the last lap to Chicago packs a few belongings into the seatbox. Notwithstanding the stop at Bryan, the 133 miles from Toledo were run off in 117 minutes for an…
Train no. 473 taking water
Niagara 6009 gets a refill at Terre Haute on her way from Cleveland to Mattoon on mail-and-express no. 473. The sixteen-car train is cut behind the ninth car to allow traffic to pass on Seventh Street, at the far end of the platform. This picture was…
Train no. 472 taking water
Train 472, whose 17 cars include 5 of strawberries received from the Illinois Central at Mattoon, pauses at Muncie for some head-end work. It is a "pause that refreshes" for the spic-and-span 5435, just out of the backshop at Beech Grove and…
Train no. 446
Number 446's eleven cars are hefted upgrade out of Bellefontaine in the early morning by Niagara 6005. The train is passing BN yard (the boxcars on the right are on track 1). Of the three yards which constitute the freight terminal here, BN is the…
Train no. 433. Switchtender shanty and target signal in view
The eleven cars of no. 433, an afternoon train from Cleveland to Cincinnati, follow the 5281 obediently through the naze of trackage just east of Springfield depot. Some of the objects referred to in the preceding commentary are in plainer focus…
Train no. 426 taking water from water column. Switchtender shanty and target signal in view
The engine crew of train no. 426 finish ministering to their charge, J-1 no. 5300, as it comes time for them to leave Springfield and resume their eastward run from Cincinnati to Cleveland. The engineer heads for the gangway with his long-necked…
Train no. 419
Since a picture of an Illinois Division train was not available, this shot of Indiana Division no. 419 (an Indianapolis-Chicago local, now discontinued) was inserted here to begin the Illinois Division portion of the Ohio-Illinois Division…
Train no. 416 passing Vine interlocking tower
With her engineer hunched forward and outward in traditional fashion, the 5437 blasts out of Shelbyville at the head of no. 416, enroute from Indianapolis to Cincinnati. The pavement is none other than Main Street, and the building is Vine tower. The…
Train no. 416
Approaching Indianapolis from the west, the Indiana Division main line turns due south in the vicinity of West 60th Street and, in a long tangent, runs through open country to West 16th Street before it finally curves eastward again towards the…
Train no. 414, target signal in view
As the main line of the Indiana Division heads northwestward across Indiana from Indianapolis, the countryside and the towns begin to look progressively more midwestern. The topography levels and the groves of trees get scarcer as the railroad…