Introducing the all-new Trains.com Forum! Become a part of our Community! >>VISIT NOW
The U30C was the most popular of General Electric’s “Universal” locomotive series, selling 592 units built beginning in 1967. Buyers included Burlington Northern, Louisville & Nashville (pictured), Milwaukee Road, Pennsylvania, Reading, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and others. This unit has lost its L&N markings in the transition to a Seaboard System identity. Jim Hediger photo […]
Running behind three Rio Grande GP40s and a GP30, this eastbound was working up the west side of Tennessee Pass near Red Cliff, Colo., on April 30, 1967. Out of sight are two F7 helpers on the rear. In the late 20th century Tennessee Pass had eight or more heavy trains climbing its 13 miles […]
A Denver & Salt Lake passenger train pauses at Arrow, Colo., on the original Rollins Pass line in 1905. At left is the main line west to Middle Park, which has a 4-percent grade. Today, Union Pacific freights and Amtrak’s California Zephyr bypass this treacherous trackage with Moffat Tunnel, completed in 1928. L. C. McClure photo […]
Baltimore & Ohio train 6, the eastbound Capitol Limited, picks up orders as it departs Chicago’s Grand Central Station bound for Washington, D.C., in July 1968. Philip A. Weibler photo […]
Michigan Northern GP7 No. 1606 rolls a two-car train south along Keystone Road south of Traverse City, Mich., in 1982. The railroad operated various trackage in the Wolverine State from 1976 to 1986. Neil Plagens photo […]
Side-door cabooses were sometimes used for delivering less-than-carload shipments to branchline stations. This is at Chicopee, Mo., on the Frisco. Wayne Leeman photo […]
The Chicago–Miami South Wind arrives at Montgomery, Ala., on June 6, 1948. Atlantic Coast Line 4-6-2 No. 1533 does the honors on this day. Launched in 1940, the streamliner ran on Pennsy, Louisville & Nashville, ACL, and Florida East Coast. F. E. Ardrey Jr. photo […]
A Reading Company train works at Allentown, Pa., on Jan. 24, 1972, with power from three builders: GE U30C, Alco C424, EMD GP35, and Alco C630. The “Bee Line Service” logo on the lead and last units graced 15 six-axle units built in 1966-1967. Bob Wilt, J. David Ingles collection […]
Southern Pacific AC-7 class 4-8-8-2 No. 4165 pulls an extra freight near Mount Shasta, Calif., in January 1944. Baldwin built 195 such “cab-forward” locomotives for the railroad, classes AC-4 through AC-12, except for AC-9. Classic Trains collection […]
The Central of Georgia’s Atlanta to Savanna Nancy Hanks II approaches the station at Macon, Ga., on its exhibition run behind brand-new E7 No. 808 on July 9, 1947. Named for a race horse, the original Nancy Hanks train ran in the 1890s. The railroad, in bankruptcy from 1932 to 1948, became a Southern Railway subsidiary in 1963. Walter […]
Three Alco RS3s lead a Boston & Maine freight near White River Junction, Vt. The railroad had 26 such units, Nos. 1505-1519 and 1535-1545, numbered around a series of similar RS2s. Jerry A. Pinkepank photo […]
Passenger cab units, like this twin-engine New York Central EMD E8, rode on six-wheel trucks with the center axle unpowered, denoted as A1A-A1A. EMD built 421 E8A units and 39 E8B units making it the second most popular model in the line behind the E7. Pictured is a late production E8, with stamped-metal grill along […]
