CB&Q 9377, a Baldwin VO1000 built in 1944, switches at the road’s brand-new freight house near Chicago in 1958. Burlington Route photo […]
Burlington Baldwin
Section: Photo of the Day
Big Ten windbreak
The Rio Grande placed a string of hopper cars filled with dirt on the inside of Big Ten Curve above Denver on the Front Range of the Rockies to act as a windbreak. Until the cars were installed in 1971, strong winds off the mountains blew several trains off the track here. Ray Kenley photo […]
B&O 2-10-2 at Deshler
Baltimore & Ohio class S-1 2-10-2 6199 leads Toledo-bound time freight 94 across the road’s double-track Chicago Division at Deshler, Ohio, in 1952. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Diesel assists steam on the Central
Two Fairbanks-Morse diesels, a five-axle “C-Liner” and an older “Erie-built,” doublehead with J-1 Hudson 5273 on eastbound mail train 32 at Millbury Junction, Ohio, 7.5 miles east of Toledo on New York Central’s old LS&MS main line, in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Bangor & Aroostook Geeps
Bangor & Aroostook 94, one of five former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines GP38s BAR acquired in 1983, leads GP7 74 and GP38 88 on a southbound freight at Chapman, Maine, in September 1985. Jim Shaw photo […]
B&O Pacific with a local
At Allingdale, W.Va., Baltimore & Ohio 4-6-2 5109 leads Grafton–Richwood local train 135 in May 1952. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Rio Grande 4-6-6-4
Freshly-shopped Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-6-6-4 No. 3708 is at Wolhurst, Colo., 13.5 miles south of Denver, on a freight bound for Pueblo and Alamosa on the road’s “Joint Line” in June 1949. Ross B. Grenard photo […]
Pennsy and Monon crossing at Limedale, Ind.
An interlocking tower and station are nestled between the tracks where the Monon crosses the two tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Limedale, Ind., in May 1944. A Monon local freight is switching the station and interchange tracks in the distance. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
Kansas City Union Station
Designed by noted architect Jarvis Hunt and opened in 1914, 28-track Kansas City Union Station was a classic big city railroad terminal. Today most of the grand structure houses a science museum, although Amtrak trains and a small railroad museum are also present. Ed Wojtas photo […]
The last PRR steam locomotive
On Sept. 3, 1958 – nearly a year after the Pennsylvania Railroad stopped using steam locomotives – PRR 0-6-0 5244 emerges from Union Transportation’s New Egypt enginehouse. UT used leased PRR steam engines from 1945 to 1959. Aaron G. Fryer photo […]
Rio Grande mountain power
Huge Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 3615 storms across South Boulder Creek near Pinecliff, Colo., on the climb from Denver to the Moffat Tunnel in July 1941. John W. Maxwell photo […]
New York Central’s first E unit
E7 No. 4000, the first of New York Central’s eventual fleet of 112 E units (36 E7As, 14 E7Bs, and 62 E8As) stands at the road’s Englewood engine terminal in Chicago on Aug. 13, 1946. L. V. Lucy photo […]
