VIDEO: Broadway Limited

Man in steam locomotive cab

In the Winter 2007 issue of Classic Trains we look at the 1941 Hollywood motion picture Broadway Limited. Broadway Limited – Episode 1 Broadway Limited – Episode 2 Broadway Limited – Episode 3 […]

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Pacing Santa Fe 2-10-4 5021

Steam locomotive on bridge with train

In the Fall 2006 issue of Classic Trains, we look at the Santa Fe’s great steam designs during the tenure of Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley. See clips of the giant 5001- and 5011-class 2-10-4’s on home rails in New Mexico and on lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad in Ohio from the Herron Rail […]

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Santa Fe 2-10-4’s on PRR

Front of steam locomotive

In the Fall 2006 issue of Classic Trains, we look at the Santa Fe’s great steam designs during the tenure of Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley. See clips of the giant 5001- and 5011-class 2-10-4’s on home rails in New Mexico and on lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad in Ohio from the Herron Rail […]

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Online video extra: P&LE’s Unwanted Berkshires

Herron Rail Video archive In his The Unwanted Berkshires in the Spring 2004 issue of Classic Trains magazine, Jack Polaritz looks at the genesis and careers of Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 9401-9407, the last 2-8-4 design in America. After P&LE dieselized, the engines were stored, then reactivated in 1955 when another New York Central subsidiary, […]

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