Big Four Wye Junction

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Big Four Wye Junction

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The partially-completed mail hall is prominent in the view of the Lakefront from Lakeside Boulevard viaduct. Railroad-wise, this location is known as Big Four Wye Junction. The tracks entering the picture on the left are the old CCC&StL mains, which reached their eastern terminus here before the Big Four was assimilated into the NYC. The tower, whose “stilts” plainly identify it as Big Four, is known as Front Street (the latter runs across the picture, immediately behind the tower). The string of gons with caboose attached on the right comprises the read end of an NYC puller, eastbound on the Lakefront running track. Lakefront tracks cross the Cuyahoga River on a lift bridge just out of the picture in the left background. Pennsylvania movements to and from their ore docks at Whisky Island, also hard by the left boarder of this picture, use these tracks between West Third Street and the west end of the bridge. The mail platforms along the Big Four west wye here are now gone. More about the old Big Four right-of-way south of Front Street in the next commentary.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Oct-53

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Interlocking tower

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Lakefront, Cleveland, OH

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