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4-6-6T B&A #402 at Wellsley Hills, MA
Westbound commuter, note white face and lettering with seriphs
2-6-6T B&A #301 at North Adams, MA
Morning arrival
2-6-6T B&A #301 at North Adams, MA
at coaling tower, looking east at Ashland St. and Hoosic Mt.
2-6-6T B&A #301 at North Adams, MA
at station
4-6-4 #5267 at Syracuse, NY
Train no. 9, 'Fast Mail' entering Fayette St. depot turnout on Washington St.
Steam Freight Train #2997 at Mattoon, IL
Oiler on bridge over other tracks
Structure at Earl Park, IN
Train no. 406, from cab approaching grain elevator
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…
#3137 and #3125 also in view
Whether or not a person is readily fascinated by the steam locomotive, he is more apt to be impressed by a cluster of these dirty brutes around a roundhouse than by an equal number of diesels at a service station. Indeed, he is compelled to be…
Train first 41
The Illinois Division headquarters are, very fittingly, located in the depot at Mattoon. This windswept town of 17,500 population, smack in the middle on the central Illinois prairie, is at near dead-center on the main line between Indianapolis and…
Extra west
Up the hill and around the next curve from West Lafayette is an uncluttered location known to the Nickel Plate as Summit. Despite its Dame, it is not at the top of the grade out of Lafayette; it is merely where the maximum rate of ascent of 55 feet…
Train no. 81
Number 81, a pickup run from Indianapolis to Kankakee, eases through the depot at Lafayette behind L-2 no. 2847. The train continued across the Wabash River bridge, just west of the depot, then stopped after about 35 of its 59 cars had gone by. This…
Train no. 419 at depot, water column in view
In this scene at Lafayette depot, the 5402 starts away with the seven cars of no. 419, the westbound local. The passenger and freight stations at Lafayette are operated jointly with the Nickel Plate, whose main tracks are shown in the picture. To…