Homemade T-3 4-8-2 Mountains Nos. 5592 and 5558 lead a westbound Baltimore & Ohio freight past J Tower at the west end of the Willard, Ohio, yard. Forty such locomotives were rebuilt in 1942-1948 at the road’s Mount Clare Shops in Baltimore from older 4-6-2s and 2-8-2s. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Open-side auto racks, like these hauling new Pontiacs, were common from the 1960s into the 1970s. Louisville & Nashville photo […]
The westbound Sunset Limited, right, and eastbound Golden State Limited — the premier trains on their respective routes — meet near Colton, Calif. Classic Trains collection […]
Original dome car Silver Dome was at Lincoln, Neb., in 1963. It was different from production model dome cars with its square windows and corner vents. Jim C. Seacrest photo […]
Fairbanks-Morse C-Liners, Nos. 4802 and 4801, shown at Milwaukee, could reach speeds of 110 mph. However, these passenger locomotives proved to be unreliable. Norton D. Clark photo […]
One of Norfolk & Western’s 81 big Y6-class 2-8-8-2s handles a long coal drag at Blue Ridge, Va., in the mid-1950s. Jim McClellan photo […]
Great Northern dieselized with FT locomotives, which debuted the classic orange and green paint scheme. Here, a matched set of FTs departs Wilmar, Minn., in the early 1960s. Perry Becker photo […]
Two of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio’s four F7As approach UD Tower in Joliet, Ill., in fall 1951 with a southbound freight for Bloomington. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
In May 1967, westbound and eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad freights pass a train stopped at Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pa. J.J. Young Jr. photo […]
Streamlined Hudson-type No. 5448 leads New York Central’s 20th Century Limited at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago in the late 1930s. Nos. 5445-5454, known as the J-3a subclass, wore the Henry Dreyfuss-styled streamlining. Alexander Maxwell photo […]
A brand-new A-B-B-A set of orange-and-black Bessemer & Lake Erie EMD F7 diesels pose on the State Route 358 bridge near Greenville, Pa., shortly after delivery in 1951. Bessemer & Lake Erie photo […]
A Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train treads some of the most famous tracks outside of the mountains in Colorado: street running in Fort Collins. Behind the locomotive are 26 cars of sugar beets for Loveland, Colo. Jim Ehernberger photo […]
