A single Alco PA diesel waits at Bloomington, Ill., with a Gulf, Mobile & Ohio local passenger train for St. Louis in 1950. Richard K. Smith photo […]
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio local train
Havana Special approaching Charleston
CTC signals, angled for better visibility on a left-hand curve, preside over Atlantic Coast Line train 76, the northbound Havana Special, as it slows for its stop at Charleston, S.C., in 1957. William D. Middleton photo […]
Illinois Terminal car in dress blue
Illinois Terminal car 277 stands at the interurban’s station in Springfield, Ill., after running from East Peoria as train 95 in May 1952. Once orange, IT cars donned blue in their final years. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Inside a CN caboose
Safe from the frigid weather outside, the conductor of a Canadian National freight train examines his wheel reports as his brakeman takes a break for tea inside their caboose in New Brunswick in 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Big city, big station
A view east down Clybourn Street in Milwaukee in the 1940s is dominated by the Milwaukee Road’s depot on the south edge of downtown. An engine crewman climbs into the cab of an F7 Hudson on a westbound train as its tender is filled with water. Classic Trains coll. […]
B&O 2-8-0 on a short line
The Castleman River Railroad ran 13 miles from Bittinger, Md., to a connection with the Baltimore & Ohio at Worth, Pa. The road’s lone engine, a Consolidation leased from the B&O, rests at Grantsville, Md., while men unload a boxcar in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Clifton Forge hump yard
A string of coal hoppers crests the hump at Chesapeake & Ohio’s yard in Clifton Forge, Va., in June 1955. The cars are bound for C&O’s Atlantic Ocean docks at Newport News. W. A. Akin Jr. photo […]
D&NE brass and steam
Duluth & Northeastern Vice President and General Manager E. A. Blinn walks down the platform of the short line’s station and general offices at Cloquet, Minn., followed by Superintendent E. A. Kruger. In the background of this September 1954 scene, 2-8-0 No. 14 takes water. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Georgia Railroad 4-6-0
Ten-Wheeler No. 211 of the Georgia Railroad rolls freight out of Scottsdale, Ga., in June 1936. C. K. Marsh Jr. coll. […]
Last and heaviest 2-10-2
The Reading’s 20 class K-1sb locomotives, constructed by Baldwin in 1931 and tipping the scales at a whopping 451,000 pounds, were the last-built and heaviest 2-10-2s in North America. Here, No. 3012 leads a train of anthracite down the Schuylkill River near Tamaqua, Pa., in July 1953. Classic Trains coll. […]
West meets Midwest in New Orleans
As Southern Pacific Alco PA diesels move toward New Orleans Union Station in the background, an Illinois Central E7 rides the turntable at the IC roundhouse. It’s 1954, 2 years before New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal opened. James G. La Vake photo […]
Meet on the Rio Grande
D&RGW SD40T-2s on a coal drag off the Craig Branch hold the main line for a meet with westbound freight No. 83 at Yarmony, a few miles east of Bond, Colo., in June 1976. Richard Loveman photo […]
