Tour the Chicago Railroad Fair through the pages of the 1948 Official Guide Book. FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN Read about the Chicago Railroad Fair in “The Last Great Railroad Show,” an article from August 1998 Trains magazine. Download the story by clicking […]
GM’s 1947 Train of Tomorrow consisted of an E7 diesel and four cars, all of which had domes. This is the dome on chair car Star Dust. General Motors photo […]
December 31, 1966, on the Rio Grande finds the east- and westbound Yampa Valley trains meeting at Radium, Colo. Seen from the cab of Alco PA 6013 on westbound train 9, eastbound train 10 is headed by a PA and an F7B. Steve Patterson photo […]
Baltimore & Ohio’s Detroit-bound Cincinnatian, just pulling out of Deshler, Ohio, is missing its usual streamlined Pacific on this July 1956 day, but 4-6-2 5316 is a worthy substitute. Don Wood photo […]
Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 27 is at Cloquet, Minn., bound for Saginaw with empty log flats in August 1962. The 11-mile line was all-steam until 1964. A sister to this engine, D&NE 28, was recently reactivated by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Russ Porter photo […]
A man and woman stand at the center window of the ticket counter at Joliet (Ill.) Union Station in fall 1951. Note the stylized ALTON, SANTA FE, ROCK ISLAND lettering across the top, four years after the Alton was absorbed into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Three of the Virginian Railway’s box-cab electrics fly high above the New River with an eastbound train at Glen Lyn, Va., in the 1950s. Richard J. Cook photo […]
Charlie Conway spends the day with the engine crew on the Mount Rainier Railroad, a former logging route in Washington state. Through the lenses of Charlie’s multiple HD cameras you will get to see just what it takes to run and maintain a working steam locomotive! […]
Time freights 209 and 212 of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad meet at Eller, N.C., in 1956. Reflective of the 95-mile WSS’s two owners, Mikado 827 (right) is a former Atlantic Coast Line engine with a Norfolk & Western tender. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulic No. 9120 pulls an excursion for the Pacific Locomotive Association out of Oakland, Calif., in April 1967. The same organization would later work to restore sister unit No. 9010 to operation. Robert L. Hogan Q What can you tell me about the Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulic locomotives that operated in the U.S. in the 1960s? […]
Spend a sunny morning watching trains at Vancouver, Wash., in March 2017. You’ll see BNSF Railway and Union Pacific freight at the Portland, Ore., metro area’s premier railfan spot! […]
Illinois Central opened its Central Station on Chicago’s lakefront in April 1893. This 1950s view shows the grand arched waiting room, which was marred in 1962 by the installation of a false ceiling. Demolition came in 1974. IC photo […]
