New York State digital archives has > 2,000 hi-res .TIFF image files taken by Fairchild Aerial Surveys in the mid-20th century. Related to Bruce Nelson's 12/29/23 posting of a NYC riding car, here is a crop of a Fairchild Aerial photo taken in 1951 of the Lipe-Rollway ball bearing factory on the west side of Syracuse NY showing a westbound NYC mail & express train on the passenger line. This train had at least 26 cars and may have been pulled by a steam locomotive and had a Boston & Albany lettered riding coach on the rear. Also note the NYC freight train behind the mail train that is running on the freight bypass around Syracuse (today's CSX main line). Here's a link to the original entire image: https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/26783

Photographed by unknown, October 17, 1951.
Added to the photo archive by John Barlow, February 3, 2024.
Railroad: New York Central.

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