27 car Greensburg switch run

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27 car Greensburg switch run

Steam Freight train

Here is the 1453 leaving town with the 27-car Greensburg switch run. The track in the foreground is the Anderson belt of the Ohio Division, which is used by practically all freights running between Indianapolis and Bellefontaine. On the eastern edge of Anderson, the two main tracks of the Ohio Division part company at Gridley tower and form two separate single-track lines -- one the belt, running via the yard and skirting the town to the south, and the other the passenger main, running via the depot near the middle of town. The two lines converge again at Taft tower, about a mile west of town and five miles west of Gridley. The Michigan District intersects the belt at right angles just east of the yard, connecting with it in two wyes. The 1453 above is starting out on the south wye. The north wye enters the picture at the right, and the Michigan District main track is a short distance behind the camera.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

4/1956

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South Anderson, IN