Just before 10:00 PM on a June night in 1960, the 4-track PRR Pittsburgh-Chicago main line at Smithville, OH (MP 129.5 west of Pittsburgh) presents this scene.  Facing the camera behind an A-B-A set of EF-15’s (the PRR’s name for F3’s) comes Advance WC-5/7, one of the “WC” fleet of westbound freights from the huge yard at Conway, PA.  The WC schedules are designed to expedite interchange traffic, pre-blocked at Conway for delivery to western roads at Chicago.   Going away, on No. 2 track, is No. 48, the eastbound General, second only to the all-Pullman Broadway Limited (following less than an hour behind the General) in priority.  No. 48, with 3 EP-20’s (E7’s) and 16 cars, has just crested the 1% grade of Wooster Hill, and will maintain the posted speed of 70 mph to the next stop at Canton.  The General is named for 1930’s PRR president W. W. Atterbury, who was director of rail operations for the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918, and although a civilian used the title “General” for the rest of his life.