The double-tracked main line of the Ohio Division is a straight shot out of Berea for 68 miles to Galion. At the latter point it forks, with a single track heading south-southwest to Columbus and two tracks bending more to the west towards…
Two J-1s, the 5329 and 5327, have to exert themselves mightily to overcome the inertia of no. 472's seventeen cars of mail and express leaving Bellefontaine. The condition of the eastbound main, blanketed with sand, testifies to the repeated efforts…
Dual-service 4-8-2 no. 3022 dissipates excess steam at Bellefontaine station on a chilly spring morning in 1953. She is attached to no. 473, the Cleveland-St. Louis mail and express train, which was running on this occasion with nine cars. The rear…
Little more than a brake release is needed to affect the departure of westbound passenger trains from the depot at Bellefontaine, and westbound freights leaving BN yard are checked tightly until the rear end is eased down near Sandusky Street. Here,…
NYC terminal operations at Columbus, Ohio, are divided, unfortunately, from the standpoints of efficiency and economy, into two supervisory and labor jurisdictions. These are the Ohio Central Division or Line West and, of course, the Ohio Division or…