Shopmen minister to a pair of giant 2-8-8-4s in Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range’s shop at Two Harbors, Minn., in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Missabe 2-8-8-4s in the shop
Section: Photo of the Day
Milwaukee class A Atlantic
Brand-new Milwaukee Road class A 4-4-2 No. 4 stands for a portrait at the road’s West Milwaukee Shops on Sept. 15, 1937. Alco built class As Nos. 1 and 2 in 1935, No. 3 in 1936, and No. 4 — the final one — in 1937. All were for the Hiawathas. Classic Trains coll. […]
Last J with the Powhatan Arrow
Norfolk & Western engine 613 — the last-built of the road’s fleet of J-class 4-8-4s, and thus the last of all North American 4-8-4s — wheels the Cincinnati–Norfolk Powhatan Arrow south of Kenova, W.Va., on May 30, 1952. Ed Theisinger photo […]
L&N heavy Mikado 1852
L&N heavy Mikado 1852 A hostler tends to the fire of Louisville & Nashville class J-4 2-8-2 No. 1852 at South Louisville on Sept. 8, 1951. The 165 J-4 and J-4A USRA heavy Mikados of 1918–27 were the backbone of L&N’s freight fleet. Jack Fravert photo […]
Helping hand from a Hippo
Pennsylvania Railroad class I1 2-10-0 1753 shoves on the cabin car of a westbound iron ore train at Alexandria, Pa., on PRR’s Hollidaysburg & Petersburg Branch in September 1955. The I1s’ chunky appearance earned them the nickname “Hippo.” Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Hardworking Erie Mikado
An Erie Railroad 2-8-2 works hard with a westbound way freight on a steep grade near Alfred, N.Y., in 1950. R. G. Nugent, Rail Photo Service […]
Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville cabooses
An October 15, 1950, fan trip on New York State short line Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville utilized every piece of rolling stock capable of carrying people the road could muster. In the consist were cabooses 1 (built by ACF in 1914) and 2 (a 1911 product of FJ&G’s own shops). Ed Theisinger photo […]
Enlarging an L&N turntable
In 1948, construction crews at Louisville & Nashville’s engine terminal in Hazard, Ky., work to enlarge the turntable to accommodate new class M-1 2-8-4s being built by Lima. The 98½-foot-long “Big Emmas” were the L&N’s largest locomotives. L&N photo […]
Doubleheaded K4’s on the Northern Central
Two Pennsylvania Railroad class K4s Pacifics hurry a train from the Midwest south on the old Northern Central Railway between Harrisburg, Pa., and Baltimore, Md., in about 1940. The first engine, No. 2445, was on the commuter train that derailed at Woodbridge, N.J., on Feb. 6, 1951, killing 85 people. Frank Clodfelter photo […]
D&H Challenger on the move
Delaware & Hudson 4-6-6-4 1527 is 8 miles out of the terminal of Oneonta as it passes a milk plant at Otego, briskly rolling through central New York State with freight RW-6 on the morning of October 13, 1951. Ed Theisinger photo […]
CB&Q drovers car
When livestock was shipped by train, the railroads provided free transportation for the “drovers” who accompanied the shipments. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy drovers car 5760 was rebuilt in 1948 from a heavyweight 12-section, one-drawing room sleeper. It’s shown here in 1958. Hol Wagner collection […]
Burlington commuter trains, circa 1920
In about 1920, long before E units and gallery cars took over the Burlington Route’s Chicago suburban service, five trains, each headed by a 4-6-0, stand in the yard at Downers Grove, Ill., poised to take commuters into the Windy City. L. E. Griffith coll. […]
