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Double headed train no. 122 under both semaphore and searchlight signal bridge
This steam-wreathed Niagara, in charge of mail and express train no. 122, is swinging onto the six-track tangent which leads from tower 50 directly to Central Terminal. Since no. 122 will be yarded in Curtiss Street, on the north side of the mains,…
Train no. 137 passing under Lehigh Valley and PRR truss bridges
Mail and express run no. 137 sports a doubleheader of tremendous speed potential, S-1 6017 and J-1 5263, as it quickens its warmup pace near the west end of the Buffalo Division preparatory to entering the Erie Division racetrack at Bayview. This…
Steam M&E Train #6001 at Union Depot, Indianapolis, IN
Train no. 473
Train no. 122 at depot
The town of Fonda, terminal of the short line Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville, is located on the Mohawk Division main line 43 miles west of Albany and 51 miles east of the present division headquarters at Utica. In this scene, J-3 Hudson 5421 eases…
Westbound mail and express leaving depot
Hudson 5423 leaves Utica in this scene, trailing 15 cars of westbound mail and express. Two weeks after the photograph was taken (on July 28, 1953), orders were issued to discontinue the use of J-class power in the Harmon-Buffalo territory in which…
Train no. 9
Far more typical of the NYC than any action provided by S-ls is the clattering roar of Hudson 5250 as she streaks through East Syracuse with the fourteen head-end cars of no. 9. Twenty-six years of service and her owner's preoccupation in 1953 with…
Ready to leave depot on train 1st no. 9, 2nd no. 9
Here is action in Syracuse depot as seen from the diesel of the eastbound Empire State Express. These two J engines are panting like racehorses as they prepare to leave with the two sections of mail and express train no. 9. The 5204 in the foreground…
M&E train no. 43
The mighty 6020 is shown here as she starts the 15 cars of mainline local no. 43 out of Newark. The Pennsylvania branch between Elmira and Sodus Point is visible in the background on the left; it bridges the NYC in the vicinity of the rear car of no.…
M&E train no. 43
Number 43 is shown again, this time leaving Rochester in the clutches of another S-1, no. 6003. When this picture was taken in 1953, headquarters for the Syracuse Division were in the station at Syracuse, but in 1959 they were moved to Rochester,…
Steam M&E Train #6013 at Rochester, NY
On westbound M&E train at CP 367 approaching searchlight signal bridge
Steam M&E Train #3064 at Rochester, NY
Eastbound on track 4
Steam M&E Train #5435
With PT tender and express car
Steam M&E Train #3140
Westbound from Howard St. bridge. Quarry on left, AG&E distant stacks
Steam M&E Train #5250 at Rochester, NY
Westbound express arriving Ames St.
Steam M&E Train #5250 at Rochester, NY
Eastbound M&E at CP 367.5 passing Rochester Refrigerating Corp.