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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In September 1954 at New Douglas, Ill., on the Nickel Plate Road’s old Clover Leaf line to St. Louis, 2-8-4 703 on westbound freight 49 holds the siding as the caboose of eastbound 98 speeds past on the main. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Workers at Chicago Union Station load mail aboard Burlington Route train 29 — the Fast Mail — prior to its 9 p.m. departure for Omaha in early 1964. John Gruber photo […]
The Union Pacific hump yard at Pocatello, Idaho, receives cars from various branch lines, sorts them by destination, and forwards them east or west to other points on the rail network. The yard is located on the Oregon Short Line route between Ogden, Utah, and Portland, Ore., that UP leased in 1936. Union Pacific photo […]
The Baltimore & Ohio dieselized its named passenger trains with six sets of Electro-Motive EA-EB passenger diesels in 1937–38. Here, two of the sets rest in Chicago between runs. Baltimore & Ohio photo […]
The first two of seven Western Maryland 2-8-0s lift a 78-car eastbound train up the twisting grade through Black Fork Gorge toward Thomas, W.Va., on May 16, 1952. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Norfolk & Western class J 4-8-4 No. 608 rolls through a tunnel at Shawsville, Va., in June 1956. The unmistakable profile of the classic streamlined steamer cuts through the tunnel portal. H. Reid photo […]
Fairbanks-Morse H-24-66, dubbed the Train Master, was known for its substantial carbody. At 2,400 hp, the Train Master was the highest-horsepower road switcher on the market when introduced in 1953. No. 6301 was one of five Train Masters rostered by the Southern Railway. Ken Douglas photo […]
Trailer Train began acquiring 85-foot flatcars in 1958. This class F85A car, built by American Car & Foundry in 1958, carriers two Baltimore & Ohio 35-foot trailers shortly after delivery. Classic Trains collection […]
Portable trailer-on-flatcar loading ramps could turn a stub yard track or spur into a loading facility. They were sometimes used in new locations or to handle overflow traffic. This is on the Reading Co. in 1960. Reading photo […]
