Flipper' passing interlocking tower (on stilts)

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Flipper' passing interlocking tower (on stilts)

Steam Freight train

A cut of 44 Gary coal trails the 2932 here as she shotguns her way through Terre Haute bound for Midland, 22 miles west on the main line and junction point of the latter with the Chicago-Cairo line. The C&EI tracks run parallel to the NYC in the background and cross it at Haley tower, about a mile east of the depot (which is just west of the location above). For Gary coal and any other E&I traffic destined for points west on the main line, the movement here is part of a backhaul of about two miles, since E&I coal drags run east over the same stretch of main line between the E&I switch west of the depot and Duane yard. The job below, which makes two and occasionally three round trips between Duane and Midland in the course of a day's work, is known as the 'Flipper'. It played a small but important part in the movement of Gary coal from the C&EI - at Wansford to the EJ&E at Hartsdale. As mentioned before, this movement was accomplished in six steps, as follows: a Petersburg crew brought the coal Iron Wansford to the washer at Lynnville; after washing, the same coal would be taken by another Petersburg crev from the washer to Ashby yard; a Terre Haute crew would bring it up the E&I to Duane; the 'Flipper' would shuttle it to Midland; a lount Carmel crew, either on a Mount Carmel-Lyons (Danville) run or on a Midland turn out of Lyons, would move it from Midland to Lyons; and, finally, a Danville crew would deliver it from Lyons to the EJ&E at Hartsdale. No manifest routed this way!

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Spring, 1954

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solid coal

499

L-2d

#2932

Alco-Schen

Terre Haute, IN