I'll bet a couple of people worked up a good sweat handling that amount. How much time did they have? Boxcab E50
Boy, does that bring back some memories. That could be my dad with the Railway Express carts, though he was meeting the Central trains in Little Falls, NY. Ken, they didn't have much time and didn't need it. It was amazing how much express freight and mail got loaded and unloaded in just a few minutes. :tb-biggrin: And Roger, Anderson is your and LEW's old stompin' grounds, right? Where are you LEW with some comments about running locomotives around Anderson?
Anyone have a public timetable? That might give an arrival, and departure time. I'm guessing they had in the area of ten minutes for station work? Boxcab E50
Ken, my NYC timetables only show arrival time at Little Falls, but arrival time at the next town, several miles away, is only a few minutes later. I dug out some Little Falls REA pix, and note the similarity with Anderson. These were taken in the 1940's. The first one shows some big boxes, probably from Allegro Shoe, being tended by Godfrey Palmer, the local agent, and Charlie Neely. The second one shows thin boxes housing Rollfast bicycles produced by the Snyder Bicycle Company in Little Falls. I coveted those, and never had one. That's Al Munger and my dad, James E. Fitzgerald.
Roger, I was in Anderson back in 73 a couple times, but don’t remember seeing the station, is it still around or long gone? There was one of those Rail Express trucks in a junkyard by Tecumseh IN for a long time. It went to the crusher bout 12-15 years ago. Shame but there wasn’t much left of it anyway. inch
The metal trim on the roof is not like the original. Otherwise, it really does look very much like it did when built.
Anderson Depot In te first photo showing the freigh wagons we are facing west.The track on the right is the Bee Line main and the left track is a crossover from the Mich. div. to the Bee Line.The interlocking signals in the distance are for west bound movement.The name of this interlocking was KY. The operator's bulding was about 12 x 15 ft.Part of the space was taken up by air tanks that raised and lowered the crossing gates.the angle of the diamond was about30 degrees.The reason for the crossover's ,this one and one west of the plant, was that that was the only way we could get from the mich. div. to the Bee line.On the yard engines we had to use the crossovers every day on first and second trick to do work.There were 3 or 4 of the tall crossing towers along the Bee Line and 4 or 5 crossing watchmen on the Mich. div.At this time downtown Anderson was a moving place. The second photo of the Anderson depot is from a camera facing southwest. The end facing the camera is actually two rooms. When I started the Trainmaster was in the left room and after several years they moved him to the right room.It is very well constructed and has stood up well with the wear of time.I can remember the taxies and autos and REA trucks all gathered around at passenger train time,but those days are long gone.Now as you stand and view the aera the ghost of the yard engine huffing and puffing and the squeal of engine brakes ,the rattle of cars coupling and air hoses popping is gone. The activity and stir as the passenger train pulls in is gone. All this but a memory. LEW
