Train no. 426

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Train no. 426

Steam Passenger Train

Middletown, 18 miles out of Sharon, is the southernmost of the many Miami Valley points along the Ohio Division which generate substantial amounts of traffic. The chief industry here is the Armco steel mill, but there are others, particularly the Inland Container Corp., whose business goes to the NYC more regularly and in proportionately greater shares. In this scene, the 5283 blasts away from the depot at Middletown with the 12 cars of no. 426, framed by the smokestacks which sprout regularly along the right of way in the next thirty-odd miles. The tracks on the left are the eastward passing siding and four tracks which make up what is known as the "Murphy Yard". Across the mains are six through tracks and a stub which are called "East yard". Four more short tracks down near the depot constitute "West yard". When business is brisk, the Middletown yard engine puts in a 24-hour day between the yards, industries, and freight house in this vicinity and the Pennsylvania interchange and mill area a mile or so south.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Apr-53

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Middletown, OH

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