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MC transfer coming off the Niagara Gorge bridge
Suspension Bridge, New York, is actually the site of two bridges over the Niagara River gorge. Both are railroad bridges, one belonging to the New York Central and used also by the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the other belonging to the Canadian National…
Train JS-2
Hotshot JS-2, a Michigan Central train from Chicago and Detroit, eases through the diamonds and crossovers at tower 65, at the north end of the Falls Branch. Baldwin units 3813 and 3817 are pulling 65 cars, some of which are out on the bridge and…
Looking west from Lockport St. at train BB-5
From Lockport Street overpass, we get this view of the NYC tracks as they extend westward past the station and tower 65. It is impossible to visualize the deep chasm from here; the CNR roundhouse, which is the building in the background beyond the…
Suspension Bridge Yard view west from Lockport St. bridge
Suspension Bridge yard is divided into two sections by Sugar Street, which crosses the yard on the bridge in the right background (the camera has about-faced on Lockport Street overpass to record this easterly view). The section shown here is called…
Suspension Bridge Yard view west from Sugar St. bridge
This picture is complimentary to the one just preceding it. Taken from the aforementioned Sugar Street bridge, it shows the east end the of Lockport Street yard and (in the left background) Lockport Street overpass, the vantage point for the two…
Suspension Bridge Yard view east from Sugar St. bridge. Coal tower in background
The eastbound yard at Suspension Bridge is called Days yard, or sometimes Sugar Street yard. Though it has fewer tracks (thirty two) than Lockport Street yard, its tracks are longer and their capacities add up to a total of about 2000 cars. This yard…
#1069 leading Train SBH-2
Eastbound road freights made up in Days yard depart in either easterly or westerly directions, depending on whether they run via the Falls Road or the Falls Branch. Trains operated the long way around via Black Rock and East Buffalo (for the sake of…
Train SD-1 next to depot
These big Fairbanks-Morse units, nos. 5007-5009, are chortling in a subdued, opposed-piston bass as they ease past the depot at Suspension Bridge. Behind them out of Lockport Street yard are the 60 cars of SD-1, a Canada Division run due out of the…
4-6-0 #1265 at Suspension Bridge, NY
White lettering
2-8-2 #2065 at Suspension Bridge, NY
fireman's side
8 whl wood #17952 at Suspension Bridge, NY
Offset cupola