Fireman's side

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Fireman's side

Steam Locomotive

This is the last of the portraits taken at Shelby Street. It was held out purposely to the end of the series to dispel any impression -- which night well have been created by the preceding pictures -- that Shelby Street was not a real engine terminal at all, but merely a locomotive graveyard. Actually, it was both, as has been the case with almost all engine terminals since the large scale introduction of diesels. Besides playing unwilling host to to the dread enemy, and besides expanding loving but increasingly inadequate care on the dwindling band of old faithfuls, these places were forced to provide funeral-parlor services as the iron horses came in from their final tours of duty and 'died' -- right in the midst of business as usual. If only they could have wandered off into weed-covered oblivion at the end of some forgotten branch..... At any rate, the very-much-alive subject below is the 3010, firing up for a run to Mattoon.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

5/1956

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4-8-2

427

L-3a

#3010

Alco-Schen

Shelby St., Indianapolis, IN