Photos Archives - Page 15 of 174

Slim Princess, wide valley

Southern Pacific’s narrow-gauge line in the vast Owens Valley of California was known as the “Slim Princess.” Here a single freight car separates engine from caboose near Zurich (Big Pine) in July 1959. William H. Mills photo […]

Q GP30s at Rochelle

Four red-and-gray diesels pull a freight through an interlocking on a clear winter day

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Penn Central Cabin

A black-and-white photo of a Penn Central caboose with a white side stripe

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Air repeater

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Santa Fe FT freight

A black-and-white photo of a manifest freight train headed by a pair of EMD FT diesels running through the San Fernando Valley in California.

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Pacemaker Freight Service

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20th Century Limited

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Big Four

An HO scale scene of tank cars spotted at a loading rack, with storage tanks and an oil well nearby

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The General

An ornate, old-fashioned black-and-red 4-4-0 steam locomotive smokes on a wood trestle

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Vanderbilt tender

A Southern Pacific 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive with a Vanderbilt oil tender is seen in a 1916 builder’s photo

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One thousand ‘Trains’ Magazine covers down!

Trains Magazine covers Whether past or present — staff, correspondents, and contributors — were asked to submit one of their favorite covers since the magazine’s inception in November 1940 — 84 years of railroading history in the making. This is what they came up with and why. If there is a particular cover you like, […]