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#1807 #1808 at Dewitt, NY
Another view of the puzzles four years later (1953) has for its center of attraction F-7 units 1807 and 1808 moving out of the westbound advance yard onto Main 3 with BC-1, an 81-car manifest train for Collinwood Yard in Cleveland. Peripheral…
#2802 coming into yard
The section of the Belt Railway west of Belt crossing is as busy or even busier than the section just shown east of the crossing. In the scene above, train CC-1, bound for Kankakee, is pulling out on this part of the Belt for the trip around town,…
11 track local yard
One supplementary facility not generally available at hump yards is a separate yard for making up local freights. The results are either that locals are delayed and production is slowed while these cars are handled in pullout areas, or that the…
2-8-2 P&E #3829, #3930 at Urbana, IL
On freight, later P&E 23, 24
72 track class yard
Eight groups of nine tracks each comprise the class yard at Elkhart. South and north bypass tracks flank the hump lead; westbound departure yard, cleanout tracks, and inbound freight lead are adjacent to the south (left, above), and eastbound…
Alco S-1566 #1525 at New York, NY
B-Side View
Backing off the hump crest after a shove
Details in this photograph, made from the east window of the trainmaster's office on the top floor of the hump building, are as follows: the hump lead, with Fairbanks humper 7112 and slug 450 backing off after completing a shove; the fifteen-track…
Cabooses, tower and #3127 in view
Dogged by the camera, the 3127 is shown here for the last time as she eases down six lead toward the icehouse crossovers. The crossovers, where the engine will be switched onto the westbound main, are five telegraph poles beyond the westward distant…
Classification tracks
Looks like an awful lot of room, but big yards attract traffic and traffic in modern times is carried in longer and longer cars, so that what in the beginning was plentiful class yard capacity at Elkhart changed later to adequate and more recently to…
Coming into the eastbound receiving yard
This complex of trackage at the west end of DeWitt yard, known as the 'puzzles', has a long-standing and well-deserved reputation for congestion. Bridge Street in East Syracuse very conveniently crosses the tracks here, affording this view east…
Deserted WG Tower at the west end, bay window caboose in view
Vandals and vacant buildings mean trouble anywhere, and so it was with WG tower after the control apparatus was removed. The brick building, once reasonably attractive in a functional way, has become an eyesore, its interior not only wrecked but also…
East end of yard
This is the east end of Rockport yard as seen from the Security Analysts’ special. There are a total of 37 tracks, bounded on the south by eastbound Belt main 4, which in the scene below supports the cut of cars on the extreme left, and on the north…
East end of yard at West Springfield MA
Here is West Springfield yard as seen from the east end yard office, with the main tracks running through the middle of the yard. The general yard office is visible above the cabooses. There is no longer a yard office at the east end but the basement…
Eastbound receiving yard
Once more we are facing east from the Feura Bush bridge. A string of stored auto racks on track 4 accents the parallel pattern formed by the snow-covered eastbound receiving yard. At the upper left is the westbound advance yard, and in the center a…
Erie Built #5000 at New York, NY
Class DFA-5a #5000 short lightning stripe in 72nd Street yard