Cleveland Mainline Railroads by Craig Sanders

Author:Craig Sanders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: unknown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

The Hudson steam locomotives of the NYC were numbered consecutively, starting with 5200 and ending with 5474. To do this, the NYC renumbered some Hudson locomotives on its B&A subsidiary that had arrived with road numbers 600–619. No. 5266 is a J1-class Hudson built by Alco in 1927. It is shown pulling No. 624, a Cleveland-to-Baltimore train that operated over the Erie and B&O Railroads. (Cleveland State University Library Special Collections.)

The NYC and PRR were the dominant passenger carriers between Chicago and New York, and no other railroad could match the number of trains that each offered. The NYC and PRR had another edge in that they went into Manhattan. The New York trains of other carriers terminated in New Jersey, and passengers had to take a boat or bus to Manhattan. The PRR’s Chicago mainline passed through Canton, 60 miles south of Cleveland. The NYC offered the most destinations from Cleveland as well. From Cleveland, the NYC had direct service to Florida via an interchange at Cincinnati with the Southern Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. The photograph above shows eastbound No. 78 in Cleveland on May 1, 1938. The photograph below was also made in Cleveland but is undated. (Both, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections.)

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