Note: More Big Four photos are available on the Michigan Division North, Michigan Division South and South Anderson pages With stories and details of the Michigan Division and Cleveland in the Memory Pages. Big Four Memories - Early years thru 1929 Big Four Memories - The 30s and 40s Big Four Memories - 50s to PC Big Four Memories - PC to CR Forty eight to Chicago (ex-Riley Tail Car) Most of these photos were sent to me and credit is given when known. (Click on the small graphic to see the larger one.) Photos from November 15th to December 13th 2008 Circa 1900 Old Greensburg IN Big Four Depot - Big Four Office Staff. May 17, 1902 View of Greensburg IN ca1900-1920 Building Big 4 tracks out of Templeton Indiana. Feb 26, 1915 Big Four train wreck Circa 1920 Big Four Depot, Crawfordsville 1926 Big 4 passenger station in Cairo, Illinois 1856   Ok, so this isn't exactly Big Four, but it is New York Central and it was just too good to not put up. Where else do you find a sign (poster) from 1856 in this good a condition. It's rather large (188k) and may be a bit slow to load, but it is really worth the wait. Enjoy! Lawrence Baggerly Collection. 1880 Central Union Station Railway Company The reverse shows as 1880 certificate for construction of the first CUT. Big Four connections with the several RRs in Cincinnati. The later CUD&T Co was in 1913. This Preferred Stock was never issued. Ohio River flooding in 1913 created the plan to construct the Cincinnati Union Depot & Terminal Company. - Lawrence Baggerly Collection. 1887 Big Four Stock Express stock car going to the Yard while the B&B (Bridge and Building Dept.) gang watch. 1887 vintage (Cleveland). Lawrence Baggerly Collection.     Same location in Cleveland Ohio after the "B&B" gang finished the work. Lawrence Baggerly Collection.     1889 Flood Preparation Amother find from the Archives. Reverse merely notes... Flood Work @ Cairo - 'Cairo Division - Wabash St Louis & Pacific Ry'. Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Companion photo from the FLOOD ACTIVITIES in 1889....looks like the photog had a real slow shutter speed, as demonstrated by those BENT steamboat stacks! (and the blurred couple on the tracks to the left.) Lawrence Baggerly Collection. 1889 April 25, 1889 - The Stockholders meeting that purchased the Cairo Division from the Wabash, St Louis and Pacific for '...the sum of 9,999,500-5,000,000 par value..." "... The Cairo Division was a line of road from Cairo Ill with a branch from St Francisville to the City of Vincennes...." The Secretary notes that the deed dated June 29, 1889 was accepted, and gave the CCC&StL (Cairo Vincennes & Chicago Ry) the right to operate the Cairo Transfer Company. These original documents were salvaged from the CCC&StL headquarters building in Cincinnati in 1964. Lawrence Baggerly Collection. From the Railroads of Indiana, Richard S. Simons and Francis H. Parker, IU Press, 1997 - Cario and Vincennes. Built as part of a projected line to Cario, this 10 mile spur, opened in 1872, connected Vincennes at St. Francisville, Illinois with what became the Danville, IL Cario line of the Big 4, In 1906 it was extended from Danville to the Calumet region. Twelve trains operated daily during the peak passenger years as shuttles to serve Vincennes. The road was abandoned in 1968 and the Wabash River bridge ws purchased and converted to highway use. Circa 1890 (date unknown) First Wreck on the Mackinac Greenville (actually Mackinaw) Larry Baggerly: Reverse of the picture notes... "Katzenburgers. 114 W. Main St., Greenville Ohio". Photographer A.M. Johnson of Greenville Ohio. Gordon Davids: The "Mackinaw" was the Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw, which later morphed into the Cincinnati Northern and came under the reign of a trainmaster at Van Wert named William Robert Foster, and at a later time a Track Supervisor at Bryan named Gordon Alan Davids (for a VERY short period.) Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Nov 1890 5,000 dollar BOND Left: An 1890 100year Bond issued in the States of Ohio and Indiana for the First Collateral Trust Mortage [St.Louis Divisoon] @ 4% Big bucks today! Right: Thought the Big Four died in the 1930s? Wrong! Check the date on this stock. - Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Circa 1894 - Anderson The CCC&StL was newly formed when this photo was taken. To the right is a new 4-6-0 built by Brooks switching the yard near downtown Anderson. The smoke and blur of the drivers indicate that it is backing. The structure to the right is the new Big Four Freight House between Jackson Street and Meridian. Over the top of it can be seen a water tower. That was later moved North of the track to the Northwest corner of Central Avenue. On the left is the new 1887 Big Four Station. Note that there are no buildings to the left of the station. They hadn't been built yet. Photo from the Madison County Historical Society Collection. 1894 Big Four Commercial 1000 Mile Ticket, patented October 23rd 1894 1895 Left - Big Four System MAP (189k) Lawrence Baggerly Collection. RIght - June 1895 Timetable Cover Lawrence Baggerly Collection. And now, here is the complete 1895 Passenger Time Table. There is a wealth of information in these pages ranging from the mileage of the various lines and branches to a population code giving the size of cities and towns. You think that we have good transportation today? Look at what we had in 1895 and that doesn't even count the Traction Lines that were springing up and would soon provide hourly service throughout Central Indiana. 1895 Passenger Time Table 1896 Roger: While researching newspapers for my Eel River RR project I found a note in the Butler (Indiana) Record of Friday Apr. 17, 1896 that the Big 4 roundhouse in Anderson burned on Mon., Apr. 13, 1896. Seven locomotives were inside. Two were pulled out in time and 5 had the woodwork burned, but all were saved. No other details. Craig Berndt The engines would have been like the one at the right. 1897   1897 Big Four ad Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Circa 1896-1900 Postcard photo of the Greensburg Indiana Depot about 1900 Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Maurice Lewman says: "In the picture of the depot at Greensburg, the passenger train is a Michigan Divison train. At the left edge of the picture behind the coach was the water plug where we stopped to take water southbound. Am I glad to see those two water towers. They were there until the steam left. The east leg of the wye passed by them. The train is headed north."   1899 I found these on a historical web site. They are labeled as dating from 1899. Never saw the "modern" Big Four depot at Pana, but believe that it was a brick structure, so the first photo must be the original station constructed when the line was built. Also, there were other railroads at Pana (Illinois Central and C & E I), so the second photo might or might not be the Big Four freight house -- however, that is definitely a BIG FOUR box car spotted on the house track!! CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection. June 4, 1900 THE MARVEL OF INDIANA ALEXANDRIA CLAIMS MARVELOUS GAIN IN POPULATION Click here for a very good article on Alexandria at the turn of the last centery. Circa 1900 Old Greensburg IN Big Four Depot on south Franklin St only 1 block south of the courthouse Marc Haston Collection (Date unknown)   Big Four Office Staff. Date unknown. Take a look at their shoes. Circa 1900 I don't have a date on this one, but it is a good shot of the depot at Crossville, Illinois. I never saw this depot, but believe that it stood on the west side of the main line, so this view would be looking south, toward Cairo. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection. Amazing what you can find when you look around. Don't know the date or origin of this photo, but it is a good shot of the Big 4 depot at Robinson, Illinois (South of Paris on the Cairo Line). Captain Rex Settlemoir Collection Attached is an undated photo of the NYC/Big 4 passenger station & division office in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. Appears to date from early 1900's; Larry Baggerly seems to think that it might have been taken around the time that the station was dedicated. Captain Rex Settlemoir Collection 1900 Setting Girders for a bridge at North Manchester Indiana Larry Baggerly said: This is a unique picture for two reasons - 1] The B&B folks were really in their ELEMENT, and 2] the Photographer wasn't!! My travels have permitted me to acquire such 'GEMS', and keep a few. One must admire those old RR guys from the past. Who would have thought today that the same bridge in North Manchester was constructed in this fashion???? Regards to GAD--the DOOR-KNOB-GANG was proud in thisun!! Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Circa 1900 This is a very interesting photo to me. The picture is from a "penny postcard" and although undated, I believe that it is from the early 1900's. The view looks north from Poplar Street in Harrisburg, Illinois and shows the Big 4 main line and the classic brick passenger station. What interests me in particular, however, is the large wooden structure just to the north of the passenger station. I presume that this was the Big 4 freight house in the early part of the century?? My memories (from the 1950's) are that the NYC freight house was about one block north and 100 feet or so west of the main line, on Gum Street in Harrisburg. This must have been the "original" Big 4 freight house, while the one that I remember was built by the NYC at a later date. Don't know if this original freight house was destroyed by fire or flooding, or was torn down for some reason. This same site is currently occupied by a Hardee's hamburger joint, and the trackage is all abandoned. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection. circa 1900 The New York Central Lines Big Four Shop Band at Mt.Carmel IL. CCC&STL had a car/loco facility there, tho the major rebuild/build facility was at Beech Grove. This picture came from a relative of H.E.Johnson who worked for NYC til his death in 1942. His daughter, Betty, believes he was a member of this Band. Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Moorefield Indianapolis This was the main coaling facility for the P&E in Indiana. This picture was in the 1900s, I remember transiting this structure in the years I went to Indianapolis to work the Bee-Line to Bellefontaine. In the late '50s I used to Deadhead past this structure enroute to Brightwood, and workin '3rd-Man' jobs between Indianapolis and Ansonia. LAB Lawrence Baggerly Collection. - Note the Big Four car in the coaling tower. The almost unreadable info at the bottom of the photo says: Fairbanks Morse & Co 148 C D [Coal Dock #148 that F.M.&Co had constructed.] It is likely that the structure was numbered #148 of the Peoria & Eastern Rwy - rph MOW Crew This picture is unidentified. When I acquired this photo the gentleman told me it was of the line that runs through Summitville but the picture was taken south of there and thought even as far as between Alexandria and Linwood. Devin Dow Collection. 1901 November 20,1901 Passenger Timetable Cover Lawrence Baggerly Collection.   May 17, 1902   View of Greensburg IN From the Switch Tower looking East Marc Haston Collection. 1904 Construction of Old Line at Hillsboro Illinois Reverse indicates: "View Looking East from Station 1861 - Feb. 8, 1904 [reproduced from a glass plate in Cincinnati Ohio HQ, and mounted on linen]. Hillsboro IL is west of Mattoon. In later years the CCC&STL constructed a newer alignment, thus the characterization, Old Line. LAB February 2 1904 Another look from the Construction on the Old Line at Hillsboro, IL... No doubt these steam shovels were employed at the Panama Canal in this same year???? - LAB February 11, 1904 More construction activity from the CCC&STL .... reverse says.."View From Millers Cut, Looking East, From Station 2070" - LAB Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Kinda poor lighting, tho noted on reverse...DUANE COAL DOCK--1904. [Terre Haute, Ind.] Note the loco tender hanging partly out the top of the loading ramp.....enough to make the Yardmaster blanch!!! LAB Lawrence Baggerly Collection. Beech Grove Its 1904 and 1905 and the Beech Grove Shops are under construction with the dedication rounding out these photos. 1904/5 Beech Grove Shops - Larry Griffey Collection Beech Grove Mechanical Drawing For more information on the history of the shops, follow this link to the History of the Beech Grove Shops. 1908-1910 - Pendleton The bridge on the right is the Interurban bridge over Fall Creek around 1908. The supports still can be seen in the park. Gene Ingram Collection   Pre-1910 of the Big4 crossing Fall Creek at the falls. Bob Eley Collection The Pendleton Big Four Station The steam train shot is post-1910 Big Four east of town. Bob Eley Collection I'm sure you noticed the bottom dump cars in the construction picture. I believe that it was taken at the old gravel pit on the Othal Ridgeway farm just west of where PHHS is now. The rerouting around town in 1910 was accomplished by building a wooden trestle and backfilling to grade. Bob Eley Collection ca1900-1920 Here are pictures of the building of the Big 4 tracks just north out of Templeton Indiana. Photos look northward from Templeton. Pictures taken and used with permission from Benton County Historical Museum. Date unknown but believed to be between 1900-1920. Bill Sturgeon Collection. 1910 Postcard CCC&StL 4-6-2 6428 Pacific - New York Central Lines Postmarked in Indianapolis, Indiana Note the passenger cars to the left at the front of the engine   October 1910 Original minutes of EM&N RR (Evansville, Mt. Carmel and Northern Ry) purchased by the CCC&STL in 1910. Construction was authorized by the Directors on 12 Oct 1906, and then acquired by Big Four in this document. Only trackage still existing is a portion from Mt. Carmel to a new power plant just across the Wabash River in Indiana. Larry Baggerly Lawrence Baggerly Collection.     Circa 1907-1912 Mr. Hensley, My Grandfathers name was William B Anderson. The first photo is my grandfather in the tower at Clark's Hill about 1907 to 1909. The second photo is supposed to be Donovan IL or Mt Carmel IL about 1910 to 1912. My grandmother left a note saying that it was at the crossing of the Cloverleaf Railroad. [I'm told that it doesn't look like Mt. Carmel (although it could have been). Donovan was very far North almost to Kankakee, but much closer to Clark's Hill.The photo has the photographer's name and location on it. It looks to have been taken by a Mundell Photos from Frankfort IN.In 1895, the Clover Leaf was the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City. It became part of the Nickle Plate. It crossed the Big Four at Clark's Hill and again at Charleston near Mattoon - rph] William B. Anderson003 received this certificate from New York Central when he retired in 1955. If anyone can identify the location of the second picture, I would appreciate it. Keith Anderson Circa 1912 A 1912 Map showing South Anderson Yard and some of the other tracks in Anderson. Look carefully at the map and you'll see Fall Creek Road and not Marine Drive. No Madison Avenue either. 1913 Hello Roger. I have been scanning some old family photos lately, and have a few that might interest you. I have attached one for you to look at. I did a Google search and found your website. Let me know what you think. - Neil Kingsley Here are another 6. If you know anything about them, please tell me, or post it on your website and I will read it. The other pictures are not labeled or marked, so I am not certain that they are the Big 4 RR, but suspect that they are. A relative by marriage, named Aquila Rose, worked for the railroad, and I am guessing it was the Big 4. He lived in Mt. Carmel, Illinois, which is near St. Francisville, where the first picture I sent was taken. Neil Kingsley Collection 1913 A temporary bridge over the Whitewater River in 1913. The bridge is on the Cincinnati to Indianapolis mainline just west of Valley Junction, OH. Circa prior 1915 Here is a photo that was sent to me by Linda Blackman from Harrisburg. She now owns the Stonefort depot and has some family photos dating back almost 100 years. Don't have dates on this picture, but as a result of her correspondence with the National Archives, we now know that it is prior to 1915. This is the same basic structure that exists today (we counted and compared the batten boards and window arrangement on the south facade of the building), but it was enlarged and expanded by the Big 4 in 1915, to include a bay window facing the tracks and a much larger freight house on the North end of the depot. - CAPT Rex Settlemoir Linda Blackman Collection. I think that this is the best photo, considering its elevated perspective, looking Southward toward Cairo, with a short freight train standing on the main line. This photo has to be prior to the 1915 date when the Big Four enlarged and expanded the depot with a bay window and larger freight house on the North end of the building. Note Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn standing on the platform, which now appears to be paved, as compared to the wooden platform on one of the earlier photos. - CAPT Rex Settlemoir. Linda Blackman Collection. Feb. 26,1915 Train wreck of The Big Four at Templeton, Indiana on February 26,1915. Circa 1915 Believe it or not, at one time we did not have e-mail and important messages were sent by telegram. Attached is a Big Four telegraph form -- it must date from the period 1910-1919, because "191__" is pre-printed on the form for the date. Telegraphy was quite a skill at that time, and one that was a specialty craft for a large group of railroaders. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection Circa 1916 Cynthiana, Indiana - Big 4 - In the background is the Big 4 depot at Cynthiana, Indiana (located on the branch line between Mt. Carmel, Illinois and Evansville, Indiana). The family on the left is my Grandfather (Chester Settlemoir) and Grandmother (Ida); the young boy is my father (H. C. Settlemoir) and the small child is his sister (Dorothy). Based on the ages of the children, this photo should date from about 1916. At the time, my Grandfather was a Big 4 agent/operator (probably at Cythiana). Later (in 1919), he would bid the agent/operator job at Vienna, Illinois where he worked until his death in 1946. My Father (H. C. Settlemoir) started his railroad career a few years after this photo, in 1927. CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection. Circa World War I World War I This photo was taken during World War I at the Big Four Depot, 14th and Dillon Streets. This group of women were Red Cross workers who would meet the 'Troop Trains" and distribute baked goods and apples. Circa 1920 Caption on this old post card shows "Big Four Depot, Crawfordsville, Indiana". Once again, no date, but looks to be prior to 1920, based on motive power of train pulling into station. Suspect that this depot is long gone, even though the line itself is still in use between Crawfordsville and Indianapolis -- don't know whether the depot sat to the north or south of main line, so can't tell if the train is EB or WB. - CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection After working on it a little bit, here is the Hutsonville, Illinois Big Four depot again -- this time it is in better focus. Once again, do not have a date, but look at the vehicle behind the station -- must be about 1920, or so. CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection Again, do not have a date on this old post card featuring the NYC/Big 4 depot and main line at Paris, Illinois. However, based on the motive power on the head end of the Eastbound in the siding, it must be prior to 1920. Also, considering the short consist, the train on the siding might even be a Cairo line train, making its station stop at Paris. Cairo line passenger trains had to make a move around the connection at Midland, so if this is indeed one of them, it would have been Northbound, since NB trains pulled over the crossing then backed around the connection before pulling into the station. Leaving town, they would have backed to Midland, then pulled forward around the connection and onto the NB Cairo line towards Chicago. For southbound Cairo line trains, the process was reversed. CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection Here is a photo of a railroad right of way near Veedersburg, Indiana from the early part of the 20th century. It is not completely labeled, so do not know for sure if it is the P & E or the Nickel Plate. Also, do not see too many "spotting features" that would help the old-timers to identify the exact location and/or railroad there. Not much ballast and fairly lightweight rail, so my best guess would be the P & E, since the Nickel Plate line through there was pretty much a "main line." CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection Here is another Big Four depot from the Illinois Division. The station at Dorchester, Illinois was located at milepost 27.1 on the line between Hillsboro and Lenox via Litchfield and East Alton -- believe that in the later days of the New York Central, this was known as the "Old Line." As with several of my earlier depot photos, suspect that this one is prior to 1920 -- look at all of those milk cans lined up on the platform! CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection This Big Four depot was located at MP 215 on the main line between Mattoon and East St. Louis. Photo looks to be very early in the 20th century, probably prior to 1920. Note that the double track was still in place for this section of line, also used by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, on trackage rights. Later, the NYC removed the double track between Pana and Lenox, when CTC was installed. Believe that this segment was one of the first TCS/CTC installations on the Big Four, and was probably done in the 1940's. CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection Here is another classic photo, from an old post card. I never really thought of the Carmi depot as being a "union station", but since the Big 4 and L & N shared the trackage through town and passenger trains from both roads stopped there, I guess that it did qualify for that grand title. The view looks north, and is not dated, but I would guess it to be the 1920's. Interesting to me, is the presence of two separate train order signals, side by side, in front of the depot -- presumably one of them was for the Big 4 and the other was for the L & N. The building is long gone, but there is still trackage at this location -- now owned by short line operator Evansville Western. The second photo is this same location, looking southward and showing the short line trackage, in a picture that I took in October, 2007 (the train order signal in this current photo is no longer in operation). CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection. Larry Baggerly: These two pages are from the E&I RR (Evansville & Indianapolis) in Terre Haute Indiana. Track #35 is the connection to the T.H.I. & E Traction Co. according to page 2. Interesting track layout from the CCC&STL HQ in Cincinnati. There is no date on the pages, but C.T.H & S.E. Connection shows at #4. Page #2 of the set lists the tracks and connections. This must be before the sale of the E.& I. in the '20s to the Big Four. Existing trackage along the Wabash River just North of Interstate 70 is the Tie Treatment Plant, which may be the Water Street area of this detail. Lawrence Baggerly Collection. This is a commercial post card, depicting a Big 4 passenger train in a cut at Grayville, Illinois. Grayville is located on the Cairo Line, between Mt. Carmel & Harrisburg. Although undated, it appears to be from the 1920's or earlier. Note that the rails are spiked directly to the ties, without the use of steel tie plates. Appears to be about 90 pound rail or so, prior to the days when the NYC "standardized" on 105 pound rail for its branch lines. CAPT Rex Settlemoir 1920 (This was originally yellow but I found that black and white shows the detail better) This train sheet is from the 1920's -- looks like it was used in both depots and towers to "OS" trains on the Big 4, as well as a few other NYC subsidiary lines, as shown at the top of the page. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection This was sent to me in an effort to identify the year and place. There is no date, nor name of the paper it appeared in. Based on a guess about the Underwood and Underwood numbering sequence, this would seem to be about 1923. Any information or educated guesses are welcome. It is a remarkable story briefly told!! The caption reads... His Prayers Rewarded, 53 years an engineer, no accidents. Boarding the locomotive for his last run, George Bemis of Indianapolis, a railroad engineer for 53 years, has just retired from the service of the Big Four road, at the age of 70. Bemis has never made a run without first kneeling in the cab of his engine and praying that the Lord might help him to bring his passengers safely to their journey's end and he NEVER had an accident. January 1924 Here is another Big 4 item from the 1920's. Appears to be a "Pay Draft" card, that was probably presented by an employee when paid. This is Oscar Moody's card from the Cairo Division - note that the card is signed by Chief Dispatcher J. C. Moody (Oscar's Father). In the early 1930's, the Big 4 Cairo Division was folded into the Illinois Division, with headquarters at Mattoon. Interesting little side note on this card, Oscar's signature on the "Signature of Representative" line has been "whited out" - is it possible that people signed on the wrong line, even in the 1920's? CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection June 1924   Here is a Big 4 employee time slip, dated June, 1924. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection 1926 This is a photo of the Big 4 passenger station, at the "end of the line" in Cairo, Illinois. Pretty obvious that when the C C C & StL built this station, they expected Cairo to generate a lot of business. Of course history proved to be a much different story and today, Cairo is almost a ghost town. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection 1927 Here's the New Locomotive for the Southwestern Limited - Larry Baggerly collection November 1927 As far as track layouts and diagrams are concerned, this one is pretty simple. However, I think that its significance is in its author and date -- according to seniority lists from that time frame, Oscar Moody hired out on the Big 4/NYC in November of 1927, which is the date of this diagram. As a newly hired telegrapher/operator, he must have felt it necessary make this drawing so that he did not make a mistake at the interlocking plant during his first days on the job. Sounds like a fairly conscientious new hire. "Dock" was located at milepost 70.5 on the Cairo line (between Marshall and Robinson). The November, 1967 NYC company timetable still shows a 60 car northboud siding and a 70 car southbound siding in service (just prior to the Penn Central merger). CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection 1928 This 1928 Saturday evening Post ad reads: A new fleet of thoroughbreds to haul the new York Central limiteds This winter a new fleet of thoroughbreds of the rails - the giant "Hudson" type locomotives - is being placed in service... Click on the ad at left for the large graphic.   1928 Cairo Division Map Here is the Big Four Cairo Division map, as shown on the back of the October 1928 company timetable. There was a hand scribed note on the cover of the timetable, indicating that this particular copy was intended for the operators at Bemis tower. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection   On several previous occasions, I have made reference to the Cairo Division of the Big Four. For most of us, our memory only goes back far enough to remember the Cairo line as a branch of the NYC Illinois Division. Here is the cover of the October 1928 edition of the company timetable -- when the line was still operated as its own division, with headquarters at Mount Carmel, Illinois. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection 1929 A couple of good, historical tidbits here from 1929. On the top is H. C. Settlemoir's Big 4, Cairo Division passenger pass, and on the bottom is his membership card for the Order of Railroad Telegraphers (union card). As time permits, and I go through old boxes in the basement, I continue to discover items like these. CAPT Rex Settlemoir Collection Here are a couple of old photos that are dated October, 1929 and were taken at the Big 4 depot in Crossville, Illinois. The train is northbound No. 14, this train was the "Chicago Mail", leaving Cairo at 7:45 AM and stopping at Crossville at 11:32 AM, enroute to LaSalle Street Station in Chicago. This train and its southbound counterpart (No. 9, the "Cairo Mail") were the day trains on this route -- the overnight train, of course, was "The Egyptian" which survived until May, 1957. Again, referring to my old Cairo Division timetables, this pair of trains (Nos. 9 & 14) were cut back to a Chicago - Harrisburg operation in 1930, and were cut off completely in 1931. Second photo shows H. C. Settlemoir on the left, while the name of the railroader on the right is illegible in our old photo album. HCS hired out in December, 1927 and was probably working the extra board in Crossville at this point. As the depression got worse, he was furloughed in about 1931 and later recalled to work as the nation's economy and railroad business improved. CAPT Rex Settlemoir collection. Big Four Memories - Early years thru 1929 Big Four Memories - The 30s and 40s Big Four Memories - 50s to PC Big Four Memories - PC to CR Forty eight to Chicago (ex-Riley Tail Car)