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FTA, FTB #1602 at Mt. Carmel, IL
AB set with DFB-1a #2402 on southbound freight
4-8-2 #3005 at Framingham, MA
Train no. 11 "Southwestern Limited" getting out of Boston for St. Louis. NYC switcher #8219 in the clear.
4-8-2 #2853 at Bellefontaine, OH
leading double header
through truss bridge #5452 at Shelbyville, IN
Train no. 405
signals #5312 at W. 30th St., Indianapolis, IN
Train no. 405 approaching tri-color signal bridge
engine terminal #3125, #3130 at Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN
Engine terminal
LV train BP-2
Here is the BP-2 of the previous photograph, with its 107 cars ready to highball down the Susquehanna Valley for Coxton. The diesel units, no's.512-513-523-522,will do most of the pulling and all of the braking enroute, while the steam engine is…
Alco switcher assisting a 4 unit diesel and a 4-8-4
Again in the summer of 1949, the preponderance of diesels is evident here;a bad-order car is being set out of symbol freight BP-2 (a Buffalo to Philadelphia train running via the Reading from Bethlehem, Pa.), necessitating the use of diesel Switcher…
LV Symbol freight SJ-2 behind 4 EMD F units, dead 4-8-4s in background
This is the same scene taken eight months later in the early summer of 1949. Symbol freight SJ-2 is shown arriving behind four new 1500horsepower EMD units, numbered 526-527-511-510. Usual steam-hauled consist of this train was 70-80 loads; on this…
Train no. CC-1
The 2947 on CC-1 spares nothing or no one as she fogs magnificently through the west end of town with 35 loads and 21. empties. The wires receiving the brunt of this treatment furnish juice for the West 10th Street car line. The interlocking here at…
Double heading train no. 416
A tandem of 4-6-4s, with J-1 no. 5391 in the van and J-3 no. 5439, trailing, drift easily up the ascent from the river with the nine cars of no. 416. Obviously this consist warrants no such aggregate of speed and horsepower. The explanation for the…
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…
Awaiting assignment at the terminal
Though Shelby Street is hardly the foreground an Indianapolis booster would choose for a photograph intended to lure travelers, it is a fact that a reasonable view of the city's downtown section is available from the tracks east of Leota Street. Of…
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…