Train no. 3, west bound 'Riley' taking water

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Train no. 3, west bound 'Riley' taking water

Steam Locomotive

The 5421 gets a refill as she pauses at Lafayette depot on no. 3, the westbound 'Riley'. The 18,000-gallon capacity of her PT tank enabled her to make the 173-mile run from Cincinnati to Lafayette for water, whereas an engine with conventional tender either had to take water at Greensburg, a conditional stop only, or else make an unscheduled stop at Glenn, a water station out in the country 13 miles west of Indianapolis (there were no waterplugs at Indianapolis Union Station). Engines equipped with 'centipede' tanks were usually kept on the Cincinnati-Kankakee trains, and if none were available, an engine change was usually made at Indianapolis.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Spring, 1954

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Lafayette, IN