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Taking in the view looking north from the bridge connecting Chapel and Nelson Streets on a June 1948 morning, Vince caught a boiler-equipped Southern F3A-B set awaiting departure from Terminal Station with what was probably the Cincinnati-Jacksonville, Florida, Ponce de Leon. The lengthy consist, which included through Pullmans from Cleveland and Detroit, extended beneath the overhead concourse and under the Mitchell Street overpass. During Terminal Station's first two decades of service (1905-1925), a cavernous arched trainshed covered the platform tracks beyond the concourse. In response to cramped confines in the immediate area of Terminal Station, Southern serviced its passenger cars and power at the North Avenue Equipment Terminal a short distance to the north.

Photograph from Trackside in the South 1946-1959 with John Knauff and Vincent Purn.

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