Train no. CC-1

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Train no. CC-1

Steam Freight Train

The 2947 on CC-1 spares nothing or no one as she fogs magnificently through the west end of town with 35 loads and 21. empties. The wires receiving the brunt of this treatment furnish juice for the West 10th Street car line. The interlocking here at West 10th, known as Brant, and operated from a little shanty behind the train, controls the junction of the Indiana Division and the Peoria and Eastern. The 2947 is swinging into the 45-degree-angle curve on which the double-tracked Kankakee line starts out. The P&E shrinks to a single track and continues straight ahead through Speedway City, passing to the south and west of the famed racetrack (the Indiana Division runs due east of it). In addition to the junction here, Brant also controls double crossovers and eastward and westward passing tracks at Glenn, 10.5 miles west. Before it was converted to remote control, Glenn, in open country just east of Zionsville, was staffed by operators around the clock. The modern tower which housed them is now unused, but Glenn is still a strategic spot, since the nearest day-and-night office to the west is 34.6 miles away at Clarks Hill.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Summer, 1955

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462

L-2d

#2947

Alco-Schen

Brant, Indianapolis, IN

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