Train SD-1 next to depot

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Identifier

NG505064

Title

Train SD-1 next to depot

Subject

Diesel Freight Locomotive

Description

These big Fairbanks-Morse units, nos. 5007-5009, are chortling in a subdued, opposed-piston bass as they ease past the depot at Suspension Bridge. Behind them out of Lockport Street yard are the 60 cars of SD-1, a Canada Division run due out of the Bridge at noon and into Windsor at 9:00 PM (and into Detroit, after a good deal of dissecting at Windsor and a couple of joustings through the tunnel and back into City yard, at 1:40 AM). Thirty-three cars in the consist are special gondolas filled with auto frames, and, knowing the demands of assembly-line consignees, it is safe to say that their passage to Detroit will be 'protected' by a fast run over the Ontario flatlands. This final shot, unexciting but yet meaningful, typifies to a considerable degree the general subject-matter of this album in its particular subject-matter and its location. Multi-tracked railroad, tangled with switches, studded with signals, cobwebbed with yards, and swarming with trains, passenger and mail and freight and more freight. Such is the character of the Buffalo Division.

Creator

Jeremy Taylor

Contributor

Jeremy Taylor

Format

2-1/4x3-1/4 neg

Date Created

4/1953

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Sub-Subject

CFA-20-4

Negative Number

233

Class-Lot

DFA-6a

Road Number

#5007, #5009

Builder

F-M

Location

Suspension Bridge, NY

Notes

See NG505064a

Citation

Jeremy Taylor, “Train SD-1 next to depot,” New York Central System Historical Society, accessed March 29, 2024, https://nycshs.omeka.net/items/show/86344.

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