In a scene far removed from today’s unit and intermodal trains, a small boy watches as a shipment is loaded aboard the Union Transportation Co.’s daily train at New Egypt, N.J., in September 1958. The short line used locomotives and cabin cars leased from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Aaron G. Fryer photo […]
Pennsylvania E7A 5901, one of the units constituting the big road’s first passenger diesel, teams up with an E7B and another E7A on a “Blue Ribbon” limited departing Chicago. This historic unit is preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. PRR photo […]
Canadian Pacific train No. 493 passes the competition at Wauwatosa, Wis., on June 14, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Arizona & California’s train from Parker, Ariz., arrives in Cadiz, Calif., on June 19, 2013. The train will be interchanged with BNSF Railway there. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
CSX Transportation C40-8 No. 7572 pounds the diamonds in Marion, Ohio, on Oct. 19, 2014. In the distance is the former Erie Railroad yard, now used by CSX; at left is Marion Union Station, now a museum. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Florida East Coast train No. 226 crosses the San Sebastian River in St. Augustine, Fla., on Sept. 1, 2013. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
A westbound Napoleon, Defiance & Western train passes the elevator in Antwerp, Ohio, on Oct. 17, 2014. With a modern unit train facility in the region, the elevator doesn’t have much use for the railroad anymore here. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
The Mount Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire puts on a show for visitors on July 27, 2014. Seen here is Jacob’s Ladder, the steepest part of the route at 37.4 percent. Photo by Ryan Trela […]
With a fresh crew on board, a westbound Canadian Pacific freight departs Portage, Wis., and chases the setting sun on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
A loaded crude oil BNSF Railway train snakes along Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line near Otis, Ind., on Oct. 20, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Canadian National train M345 heads north at Rantoul, Ill., on the Chicago Subdivision after meeting a southbound in subzero temperatures and fierce blowing snow. Photo by Erik Coleman […]
A train load of coal rolls the last mile from the mine in Wyoming to the Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan, Wis., at dusk on July 22, 2012. Photo by Rich Peters […]
