EAST END STEAM 1

A PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AT THE EAST END OF THE NEW UNION STATION

A westbound I-1 Pacific rolls into the Union Station. Tefft's P&W freight house is in the background.

I-4 Pacific 1364 arriving from Boston with "The Puritan" for New York on May 12, 1935.

The old Promenade Street tower is in the background.

I-4 Pacifics 1395 (rear) and 1389 side by side at the east end of the platforms. !389 carries white flags as an extra train suggesting it is a railroad enthusiast excursion train.

I-5 Hudson 1400 stands next to the "Comet" on an unknown occasion, possibly a railroad enthusiast excursion. The 4-6-4 type locomotives built by Baldwin in 1937 were the last steam engines purchased by the New Haven. The "Comet" was introduced in 1935 to operate on a Boston-Providence schedule which required the lightweight streamlined train to cover the 44 miles in 44 minutes. Station stops at Back Bay and Pawtucket-Central Falls necessitated a 95 mph speed for part of the run.

Another photograph of the same occasion. The well dressed men, including the two photographers on the right, suggest they are railroad enthusiasts on an excursion behind I-5 1400 which has a white flag on the engineer's side.

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The I-5 Class Hudson was built in 1937, about ten years after the Industrial National Bank Building in the background.

A K-1-c Class 2-6-0 type eases through the station with a freight train while a G-4 Class 4-6-0 type waits in front of Tefft's P&W freight house.

A C Class 4-4-0 type arives from the east while the G-4 Class engine in the photo above waits, probably for the stop signals in front. The lower quadrant signals in the foreground indicate proceed. Tefft's B&P freight house stands behind the old Promenade Street Tower while his P&W freight house is in front.