Train CC-2 behind Mohawk, Lima switcher and switchtender shanty in view

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Train CC-2 behind Mohawk, Lima switcher and switchtender shanty in view

Steam Freight Train

This is the scene from the opposite side of Sandusky street bridge. on the eastbound main, CC-2, a fast freight between Cincinnati and Toledo, is whisked through town on its way to East yard by the 3064. The Toledo cars were set off in Gest yard, the north-south yard about a mile south of the location above, and all that remain are 19 cars for points east, including four stock and two perishable on the head end. The Lima-Hamilton switcher on the westbound main is taking on fuel and water (overflow fuel from repeated fueling of diesels on eastbound passenger trains has formed a morass between the two mains). The track on the left, known as the "mill track", is a bypass between Sandusky Street and BS tower, at the crossing of the Cleveland-St. Louis and Toledo-Cincinnati lines. BS, referred to appropriately as the "high tower", is visible in the background below and to the right of the targets on the eastbound signal. Incidentally, a strip of pavement claimed by natives to be the "shortest street in the world" parallels the tracks for one store-front length between Columbus and Garfield Avenues, which cross the tracks within a few feet of each other in the immediate background. This unusual "attraction" is called McKinley Street; it is located to the right of the tracks and just to the left of the column of exhaust from the 3064.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Apr-53

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300

L-3c, DES-15a

#3064, #8405

Alco, Lima

Bellefontaine, OH

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