Train no. CC-1
Identifier
NG502042
Title
Train no. CC-1
Subject
Steam Freight train
Description
With the caboose markers 69 cars back just about clear of Lebanon, the engineer on manifest no. 95 'widens on her' for the resumption of normal progress westward. 'Her' is L-2 no. 2877, and she was undoubtedly flexing her iron-horse sinews in anticipation of crowding the 50-MPH limit over the 32-mile stretch to Altamont, junction with the Nickel Plate just east of Lafayette. With a train of moderate tonnage and an easy profile ahead, conditions were favorable for some of the fast running for which L-2s were built and for which they had so little opportunity in their last years, when diesels had the hotshots and steam had the leavings.
Creator
Jeremy Taylor
Contributor
Jeremy Taylor
Format
2-1/4x3-1/4 neg
Date Created
Spring, 1954
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Negative Number
482
Class-Lot
L-2c
Road Number
#2887
Builder
Alco-Schen
Location
Lebanon, IN
Collection
Citation
Jeremy Taylor, “Train no. CC-1,” New York Central System Historical Society, accessed May 2, 2024, https://nycshs.omeka.net/items/show/85963.
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