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4-6-2 NYC&HR #3435 at Syracuse, NY
Street running on Washington St.
Train BF-1 on Lake Line
Four freight-only tracks extend westward from the NYC's DeWitt Yards at East Syracuse and skirt the northern edge of Syracuse, rejoining the passenger main at Solvay, on the western city limits. Over these tracks flows an almost incessant stream of…
Lake Line Puller
In addition to thru traffic, on the NYC's four-track freight belt west of DeWitt Yards , East Syracuse, there is a large number of local freights and switching runs, the latter known to Central men as “pullers". The "puller" above is jogging along…
Train CD-2 under James St. passing under searchlight signal bridge
Here's a mixed drag off the Pennsylvania Division bound for the East Syracuse terminal, ducking under a signal bridge about a mile west of De Witt Yard throat. Engine 2558, L-1 Mohawk type on the head-end, indicates the origin of the train, because…
X west on Lake Line near James St.
The photographer had only to do an about-face after the passing of the drag pictured on the preceding page to get this shot of the NYC's no.2745, pulling out of DeWitt Yards with 74 high cars behind. The rear end of this train is just about abreast…
Train no. 5 at Thompson Rd.
Engine no.6016 of the NYC's great Niagara class leaves East Syracuse in a cloud of soot and dust as she roars thru at 70 m.p.h. with train no. 5, the westbound "Mohawk". This train, a semi-local from New York to Chicago, is one of many on which the…
Train DH-3 nearing James St.
As this album comes to its end, we leave East Syracuse, N.Y., to the 126 tune of shouting whistles and clanking drawbars, hoping to return before the age of diesels, with the disenchantment of its standardization and internal power, removes the real…
Steam Passenger Train #5225 at Syracuse, NY
Eastbound local at depot
Steam Freight Train #2749, #1514 at Syracuse, NY
Freight east on Lake Line
Steam Freight Train #2963 at Syracuse, NY
Freight east on Lake Line, livestock up front