Franconia Paper Co. 0-4-0T No. 3, built by Porter in 1917 for the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, putters about the paper company’s plant at Lincoln, N.H., in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
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Brand-new Cincinnati Union Terminal
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. […]
Classy piggyback power
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 […]
Horseshoe Curve in 1969
See color movies that Dave’s friend Dick Wallin took during their 1969 visit to Horseshoe Curve. […]
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NKP Berkshire at Bellevue
In September 1955, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 774 moves through the yard at Bellevue, Ohio, as a Fairbanks-Morse diesel switcher works in the background. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Belt Railway C424s
Alco built a total of 190 Century 424 road-switchers during 1963–67. Nearly half went to Canada, and a quarter to Mexico. Of the 53 built for U.S. customers, 6 were for the Belt Railway of Chicago, which used them until 1999. Harold A. Edmonson photo […]
Three-way race on the B&M
Just out of Boston’s North Station, three Boston & Maine trains have crossed the Charles River drawbridges and approach the Charlestown Avenue bridge in mid-1947. From left: a 4-6-2 with a beach special, an E7 with the Alouette for Montreal via Canadian Pacific, and another 4-6-2 on the Boston section of the Green Mountain Flyer, bound for […]
UP 2-10-2 on the run
The 2-10-2 Santa Fe type wasn’t generally known for speed, but Union Pacific 5015 looks like a real racehorse heading west across Nebraska with empty reefers in the late 1940s. Linn W. Westcott photo […]
UP Challenger type
Union Pacific introduced the 4-6-6-4 Challenger type in 1936 when it received 15 engines from Alco. UP eventually owned 105 of the 252 4-6-6-4s produced; No. 3937 is from the road’s final order, delivered in 1944. Art Stensvad photo […]
Waiting at Chicago Union Statio
A Milwaukee Road trainman peers down the dimly lighted platforms of Chicago Union Station for any late-arriving passengers as the Arrow prepares to depart the Windy City for Iowa points in 1964. John Gruber photo […]