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Facilities

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 gondola cars of a Security Analysts’ Excursion, operating through the terminal area in the fall of 1953. Since then, steam power has disappeared from the scene and, along with it, Collinwood roundhouse. The coal dock still stands as a reminder of things past. Also surviving and in the same category are the catenary supports, because, as soon as dieselization of passenger service through Cleveland Union Terminal was completed, the electrification between Collinwood and Linndate was eliminated. (The electric locomotives were rewired and put into service in the New York territory.) The maze of main track, leads, and sidings in this vicinity is under the jurisdiction of director and leverman at QD tower, located behind and to the right of the camera. QC, next to CT (Union Terminal) the largest and busiest interlocking in the Cleveland area, handles movements at the west end of Collinwood yard. The plant here receives passenger and friend trains, pullers, yard cuts, and light engines from the main line, the yard, the roundhouse, and the back shop on the east, the locomotive maintenance terminal on the south, and the Lakefront, C.U.T., and Belt lines on the west, sorting them out and sending them to their various destinations.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Oct-53

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Yard

240

Collinwood, Cleveland, OH

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