SD38-2s 666 and 669 lead an Elgin, Joliet & Eastern freight across the Union Pacific/CSX Transportation (former Chicago & Eastern Illinois) diamonds at Chicago Heights, Ill. R. B. Olson photo […]
Cloudy day on “the J”
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DL&W freight at Lake Hopatcong
Three FT diesels bring eastbound freight BH-2 past the Lackawanna Railroad’s station at Lake Hopatcong, N.J., in May 1946. Theo. A. Gay photo […]
East Broad Top comes back to life
In August 1960, four years after Pennsylvania’s coal-hauling, narrow-gauge East Broad Top shut down, owner Nick Kovalchik reopened part of it for tourist operations. People crowd the platform at Orbisonia, Pa., to board one of the first trips. Don Wood photo […]
Big Emma from above
Louisville & Nashville 2-8-4 No. 1966, a class M-1 “Big Emma,” departs Winchester, Ky., with time freight 44 in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Boarding Wabash’s Blue Bird
A man and girl walk past the Blue Bird’s dome-observation car as they board the Wabash’s streamliner to St. Louis at Dearborn Station, Chicago, in the 1950s. Bill Wight photo […]
E5 with new bi-levels
An E5 heads up one of the first Burlington Route commuter train to sport the new bi-level “gallery” cars delivered by Budd in 1950. The train is eastbound at famous Naperville curve on the triple-track west of Chicago. Bob Borcherding photo […]
Erie PA at Hoboken
Erie Railroad Alco passenger diesel No. 860 stands with a train at Hoboken, N.J., in April 1959. Erie’s 14 PAs all went to the Erie-Lackawanna upon the Erie’s merger with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1960. Erie began using Lackawanna’s Hoboken terminal a few years before the two roads merged. Louis A. Marre collection […]
Inside the Train of Tomorrow
Models pose for the camera inside Moon Glow, the Train of Tomorrow’s dome-observation-lounge car. GM and Pullman-Standard built the four-car, E7-powered ToT in 1947. General Motors photo […]
Santa Fe FTs in the desert
Crewmen wave and the white extra flags are taut as four FTs speed a freight west across the desert between Needles and Barstow, Calif., in the early 1940s. Wendell H. Kinney photo […]
Classic Trains, Winter 2016
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Rio Grande 4-8-2 helper
Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 1513 pushes hard on the caboose of a 55-car freight climbing the Front Range of the Rockies where the line crosses Coal Creek. The date is March 14, 1942, and the lettering on the bridge shows that the line is still owned by the Denver & Salt Lake, which […]
Skytop sleeper at Milwaukee
The Skytop sleeper-observation car of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha, highlighted by plenty of windows and chrome trim, stands at Milwaukee early in the train’s Chicago–Tacoma run. Classic Trains coll. […]
