This photo looks south, toward the receiving yard at the NYC/Big 4 yard in Harrisburg, Illinois. Main line to Cairo is visible to the far left of the picture. According to Edson's book "Diesel Locomotives of the New York Central System" #7106 is a Fairbanks Morse 2000 HP unit, built in 1948 and sold to GE in 1964; it was equipped for MU operation at both ends. The picture has to date from 1953 or later, since the WSIL-TV tower is visible in the background to the right. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection
Interesting yard design, Roger. It's graded like a hump yard, but appears to have manual throw switches. Do you have any more information?
This is a northbound view of the Harrisburg, Illinois Yard on the NYC/Big 4 Cairo Line. It is the companion to the southbound view above and was taken from the floodlight tower just south of the hump yard office (roof of the yard office is visible in the foreground). Main line to Mount Carmel is visible to the right and roundhouse is on the left, along with the wreck train. Harrisburg was by no means a modern yard, so the tracks in the center were a combination classification/forwarding yard. After the cars (mostly coal) were weighed and classified on the manual hump, northbound trains were doubled together at the north end of the yard. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Hope this helps!
