MC transfer coming off the Niagara Gorge bridge

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MC transfer coming off the Niagara Gorge bridge

Steam Freight Train

Suspension Bridge, New York, is actually the site of two bridges over the Niagara River gorge. Both are railroad bridges, one belonging to the New York Central and used also by the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the other belonging to the Canadian National (CNR crews handle Wabash traffic to and from the American side over their bridge). This is the NYC bridge, occupied here by a Michigan Central transfer drag bound from Montrose, Ontario, to Suspension Bridge, New York, behind H-7 2-8-2 no. 2026. The NYC runs about five road freights each way daily over the bridge, but all local traffic moves on transfers handled by MC crews and engines (these transfer engines, operating out of Montrose, were the only NYC steam power in this area at the time, and the CNR was the only other steam-user). The cars in the right background are moving across the CNR bridge in one of that road's transfers.

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

4/1953

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H-7d

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Suspension Bridge, NY

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