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Train no. 415
Although in the present version of the timetable the schedule and consit of no. 415 have been altered considerably, in the fall of 1954 it was due out of Cincinnati only 45 minutes after the "Riley". It then followed the latter to Chicago on a slower…
Train no. 405
In the vicinity of West 22nd Street, the 5266 on no. 405 gathers speed on the tangent which extends up to 60th Street. Actually, there is no 22nd Street out here; the train is running through the fields of the farm colony of the Indiana Central…
Train no. 405
Number 405 hustles through the interlocking at KD behind the quickening beats of the 5291. The track in the center foreground is the B&o main, which joins and absorbs the eastward main of the P&E at KD and continues to IJ, representing the B&O's…
Train no. 405
At West Street, about one block beyond Kentucky Avenue, westbound trains leave the IU for NYC rails again. The point where this takes place is in the vicinity of the third car in the train pictured here. The car is an Illinois Central RPO, and the…
Train no. 405
At Delaware Street, two blocks east of the depot, the 3149 eases no. 405 into the interlocking controlled by "A" tower of the IU. To the left is the Pennsylvania's downtown produce yard. In the left background, one block east at Alabama Street, is…
Train no. 405
In the waning light of a January afternoon in 1954, no. 405 is hustled into Indianapolis by PT-tendered J-3 no. 5413. The train is just coming onto Indianapolis Union tracks at College Avenue, about four city blocks west of Shelby Street (the…
Train no. 405
Hill Yard is actually a group of yards with different names and functions scattered over a distance of about three miles. The main line skirts this far-flung and rather purposeless conglomeration from Beech Grove on the east to Belt crossing on the…
Train no. 405
Guilford Hill is more of an irritant than an obstacle to passenger trains, and this was just as true in steam days as it is now. Westbound trains make no stops between Cincinnati and Batesville. Maximum speed on the hill westbound is 70 MPH for the…
Train no. 38
A Buffalo-New York local, no. 38, pulls out of Fonda on track 2 behind Niagara 6012. Application of CTC (known as TCS for 'Traffic Control System' on the NYC) has provided bi-directional signalling on tracks 1 and 2, and has resulted in the removal…
Train no. 355
Detroit-Chicago train no. 355 brakes into the station at Niles, headed by J-3a Hudson 5425. Though declining steadily and way down from the immediate postwar level, passenger business was still reasonably good at the time on the 280-mile "corridor"…
Train no. 351
Most of the few steam locomotives which have appeared in the pictures thus far have been more or less incidental to the main purpose of all of this photography, i.e., to record on film as many of the key points of the Buffalo Division as possible.…
Train no. 350
Exchange Street, along the Falls Branch in downtown Buffalo, was formerly the site of the NYC's main passenger terminal in the city. The old depot there had become crowded and delapidated, as well as an operating headache, hence the present Central…
Train no. 35, west of Toledo Central Terminal
West of Broadway tower (visible in the right background), S-1 no. 6013 begins to apply her plentiful horsepower to the task of breaking no. 35 away from the restrictions of the Toledo terminal, with the 133-mile racetrack to Elkhart ahead to bring…
Train No. 35 passing Fassett Tower and semephore signal bridge
Little Fassett Street tower on the left is at the west end of a short stretch of four-track main line in East Toledo. It also controls movements between the main tracks and the northwest wye connection with the W&LE belt. This wye is visible here…
Train no. 312 at Ivorydale
This picture of the 3130 wheeling no. 312 through Ivorydale was taken less than half a mile east of the preceding one (the westbound distant signal for the junction is still faintly discernible in the distance). Ivorydale yard is again out of sight,…