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This northward view shows the sprawling Cincinnati Union Terminal complex not long before it was put into service in March 1933. Besides the landmark half-dome headhouse, the terminal included 15 platform tracks, a 26-track coach yard, and 20-stall roundhouse. Classic Trains coll. […]
Displaced from more glamorous duties by the decline in passenger service, three Erie Lackawanna PAs lead a westbound piggyback train through Pullman Junction (Chicago) en route to New York in July 1963. Jim Wozniczka photo […]
A New York Central RS3 has a healthy seven cars in tow as it heads down the west shore of the Hudson River toward Weehawken, N.J., on June 4, 1953. This view is from the Bear Mountain Bridge. E. Treloar photo […]
Pacific 208 leads Western Maryland’s daily passenger train between Elkins, W.Va., and Cumberland, Md., around one of the many sharp curves in Black Fork Gorge, a few miles west of Thomas, W.Va., circa 1950. Wayne Brumbaugh photo […]
One of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal’s SW8 switchers gets ready to add a Southern Pacific express boxcar to a passenger train in 1954, the year NOUPT opened. James G. La Vake photo […]
Pennsylvania Railroad class T1 4-4-4-4 duplex 5536 shows the effects of hard service at Chicago in the late 1940s, but the engine is in fact less than five years old. Classic Trains coll. […]
The pushers of two eastbound freight trains pass AR Tower in Gallitzin, Pa., summit of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pittsburgh–Philadelphia main line in 1956. The track above the tower loops from the westbound main tracks. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
An elderly man looks out from the concourse of recently completed Toledo Central Union Terminal. New York Central built the terminal during 1947–50; C&O, B&O, and Wabash trains also called here. Classic Trains coll. […]
An A-B-B-A set of FT freight diesels crosses the Santa Fe’s just-completed bridge over Canyon Diablo west of Winslow, Ariz., in 1946. Santa Fe photo […]
A Savannah & Atlanta 2-8-2 pulls out of Sardis, Ga., about halfway down S&A’s main line between Camak and Savannah, with train 2, the southbound mixed train. C. M. Clegg photo […]
Mikado 482 was built by Alco’s Schenectady plant for the Mobile & Ohio in 1928. It went to West Virginia short line Cherry River Boom & Lumber after the GM&O merger. It’s resting at Jerryville, W.Va., southwest of Elkins, in May 1952. Ed Theisinger photo […]
Minneapolis & St. Louis GE 44-tonner 149 stands beside the weathered depot at Roland, Iowa, (population 700) in September 1950. William F. Armstrong photo […]
