2020-06-04-0027 (2)
February 1976 Fishfry St. Hartford yard (CT). There was a method employed, as to what part of the train would a new cut of cars end up, in this case, they wanted these Hartford yard pickups, at the very end of the train, and is why they backed the whole train minus the caboose, into the yard. Selkirk bound trains dropped cars in Hartford, Springfield, and even occasionally in Westfield, MA. Future cars to drop were best positioned at the front or end of the train. This is NS-1 or NS-3 and they are pulling the whole train out of the yard, and onto the main. So, in cases like this one, you can see that the locomotives might be up into Windsor, before taking off north, with the now coupled caboose.
2020-06-04-0027 (2)
February 1976 Fishfry St. Hartford yard (CT). There was a method employed, as to what part of the train would a new cut of cars end up, in this case, they wanted these Hartford yard pickups, at the very end of the train, and is why they backed the whole train minus the caboose, into the yard. Selkirk bound trains dropped cars in Hartford, Springfield, and even occasionally in Westfield, MA. Future cars to drop were best positioned at the front or end of the train. This is NS-1 or NS-3 and they are pulling the whole train out of the yard, and onto the main. So, in cases like this one, you can see that the locomotives might be up into Windsor, before taking off north, with the now coupled caboose.