New digs for the White River and Northern III

This is the WR&N engine facility, located alongside the Conrail mainline in the foreground. The turntable pit is clearly visible at the left edge of the image. In the center background, the tower-like structure is a freight car repair crane, which survived from the first version of the WR&N. Toward the upper far right, one of the four suspension cables is visible. The cables ran through pulleys mounted to the ceiling across to the corner of the room and down to a counterweight.

Image specs: The embarrassingly poor quality of this image is due to the fact that it was taken with a non-flash disposable camera using available light, which is all I had on hand at the time. But... a poor-quality image is somewhat better than none at all. I converted it to black-and-white for better effect—it was otherwise nothing more than a garish mass of blue-green.

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