Terminal's Day Shift Switch Engine at Superior, WI October 1970
LST&T Railway's engine 104 is posed just west of their roundhouse that was located at the corner of Belknap Street and Oakes Avenue. The viaduct behind the little NW2 carries Belknap Street. Originally that structure had sidewalks on both sides but after WWII the sidewalk on the north side was removed. Oddly, the railings for it remained into the early 1970s which is why there are so few pictures taken from that bridge looking north because the railing being so distant from the street surface blocked a photographer's view of the tracks beneath it. This portion of the bridge (that was directly over the LST&T and NP tracks) was maintained by the NP. What I remember most about the old viaduct is how I could be standing on this end of the bridge and when cars entered it half a mile to the west the entire structure would shake and bounce up and down so badly that you really couldn't take pictures from it without having camera blur in the images. You needed to wait for the old iron bridge to settle down so that you could take decent pictures from it. Rush hour was NOT the time to be taking pictures from on top of the old Belknap Street bridge. That's for sure. Once they tore down that railing I snapped quite a few shots from up there.
Note the odd multiple unit box on the front of the locomotive. The Terminal added M.U. to this unit after it was delivered from EMD without it. Terminal engines 103-105 had M.U. while 100-102 did not.
Terminal's Day Shift Switch Engine at Superior, WI October 1970
LST&T Railway's engine 104 is posed just west of their roundhouse that was located at the corner of Belknap Street and Oakes Avenue. The viaduct behind the little NW2 carries Belknap Street. Originally that structure had sidewalks on both sides but after WWII the sidewalk on the north side was removed. Oddly, the railings for it remained into the early 1970s which is why there are so few pictures taken from that bridge looking north because the railing being so distant from the street surface blocked a photographer's view of the tracks beneath it. This portion of the bridge (that was directly over the LST&T and NP tracks) was maintained by the NP. What I remember most about the old viaduct is how I could be standing on this end of the bridge and when cars entered it half a mile to the west the entire structure would shake and bounce up and down so badly that you really couldn't take pictures from it without having camera blur in the images. You needed to wait for the old iron bridge to settle down so that you could take decent pictures from it. Rush hour was NOT the time to be taking pictures from on top of the old Belknap Street bridge. That's for sure. Once they tore down that railing I snapped quite a few shots from up there.
Note the odd multiple unit box on the front of the locomotive. The Terminal added M.U. to this unit after it was delivered from EMD without it. Terminal engines 103-105 had M.U. while 100-102 did not.