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The outline of East 152nd Street bridge is barely visible in the right background to the right of Collinwood roundhouse and beyond a pair of E7s (which are attached to no.59). This picture and three others in the Cleveland series were made from the…
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…
West end of yard
The view here (again from the Security Analysts’ special) is of the west end of Rockport yard. On this occasion, the special was traveling on Lakefront main 1. The tracks in the foreground are, from front to back, Lakefront 2 and 4, two Rockport…
T&OC West Yard at West Columbus, OH
This picture and the next one have little, if anything, to do with the Ohio Division. They illustrate two variations of the operations of the Ohio Central Division in and around Columbus, and are inserted here in this album because there is no…
Opposite view from Oklahoma track at Mill Creek
With relation to the scene shown on the preceding page, this view is in almost the opposite direction. In the background, of course, is the Ohio River, flowing from left to right. The main tracks in the the foreground are, from front to back, those…
Riverside Yard
Three-tenths of a mile west of the aforementioned Storrs Junction sits King Tower, controlling the interlocking which governs movements in and out of the east end of Riverside Yard. This picture was taken from a highway bridge just west of the tower.…
Heavy hump master retarder
The heavy hump lead as it descends from the apex of the hump appears in the foreground of this picture, taken from the retarder tower. The operator here controls all retarders and switches on the heavy hump - a total of one master retarder (in the…
Heavy hump bowl tracks
The retarder tower at the heavy hump offers this view of the heavy hump yard, the main line, and the light hump yard, looking from right to left. The location of the engine terminal with its 30-stall roundhouse is marked by the coal dock and…
Mill Creek Yard
This is the arrangement of tracks at the west end of Mill Creek yard. The Southern bridge again dominates the background, with the downtown Cincinnati "skyline" in the distance on the right. Cincinnati Junction is out of sight behind the floodwall on…
West Side Yard from Harding St.
One of the persistent headaches which plagues the NYC and other roads with big-city terminals is the grade-crossing situation - the battle between the motorist, supported more or less consistently by public authority, and the train crews, supported…
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…
#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,…
Looking east into VI Yard
Here is the west end of that section of East Buffalo pocket yards whose east end was shown in the preceding picture. In the center and at right is VI yard, a 19-track pocket whose principal function is handling road freights off the Syracuse Division…
Looking northeast into Valley Yard
Looking northward along the aforementioned DL&W fill (this was taken from the same spot as was the preceding photo), one sees a jumble of curving tracks which appear to the uninitiated eye to wander aimlessly, and which indeed typify the lack of…
VI Yard, boxcar P&LE #36374 in view
The photographer was still perched on DL&W property for this undertaking. NYC mains 2,1,3, and 4 are in the foreground, across Broadway. Beyond are the west throat of VI yard - the cut of cars is on track 1 - and the West Shore connecting tracks.…