One of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal’s SW8 switchers gets ready to add a Southern Pacific express boxcar to a passenger train in 1954, the year NOUPT opened. James G. La Vake photo […]
Switching in New Orleans
Timeworn T1
Pennsylvania Railroad class T1 4-4-4-4 duplex 5536 shows the effects of hard service at Chicago in the late 1940s, but the engine is in fact less than five years old. Classic Trains coll. […]
Top of the PRR
The pushers of two eastbound freight trains pass AR Tower in Gallitzin, Pa., summit of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pittsburgh–Philadelphia main line in 1956. The track above the tower loops from the westbound main tracks. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
View from Toledo Central Terminal
An elderly man looks out from the concourse of recently completed Toledo Central Union Terminal. New York Central built the terminal during 1947–50; C&O, B&O, and Wabash trains also called here. Classic Trains coll. […]
Santa Fe’s Canyon Diablo bridge
An A-B-B-A set of FT freight diesels crosses the Santa Fe’s just-completed bridge over Canyon Diablo west of Winslow, Ariz., in 1946. Santa Fe photo […]
Savannah & Atlanta mixed train
A Savannah & Atlanta 2-8-2 pulls out of Sardis, Ga., about halfway down S&A’s main line between Camak and Savannah, with train 2, the southbound mixed train. C. M. Clegg photo […]
Secondhand 2-8-2 in West Virginia
Mikado 482 was built by Alco’s Schenectady plant for the Mobile & Ohio in 1928. It went to West Virginia short line Cherry River Boom & Lumber after the GM&O merger. It’s resting at Jerryville, W.Va., southwest of Elkins, in May 1952. Ed Theisinger photo […]
Small diesel in a small town
Minneapolis & St. Louis GE 44-tonner 149 stands beside the weathered depot at Roland, Iowa, (population 700) in September 1950. William F. Armstrong photo […]
Soo local in northern Minnesota
Pacific 2702 clatters across the Northern Pacific tracks at McGregor, Minn., 81 miles west of Duluth, with Soo Line’s Thief River Falls–Duluth train 64 in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
GM&O GP35s
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio traded in its Alco FA units on EMD GP30s and GP35, which came from La Grange with the AAR Type B trucks from the FAs. F. Axtell Kramer Jr. photo […]
Hudson on the Hiawatha
One of the Milwaukee Road’s dashing F7 4-6-4s accelerates the Hiawatha out of Chicago at the start of the streamliner’s run to Minneapolis on a winter day in 1939. Alfred W. Johnson photo […]
L&N at Ashley, Ill.
Louisville & Nashville train 92 between Nashville, Tenn., and St. Louis pulls into the old depot at Ashley, Ill., in September 1957. An FP7 and a Geep head the all-heavyweight consist of several head-end cars and two coaches. Jim Shaughnessy photo […]
