Introducing the all-new Trains.com Forum! Become a part of our Community! >>VISIT NOW
Having just departed its Baltimore terminal adjacent to B&O’s Camden Street Station, a Baltimore & Annapolis car curves off B&O trackage and onto B&A’s line to Annapolis at Carroll Tower in 1946. William D. Middleton photo […]
Unit 13 leads an A-B set of Santa Fe E6 diesels across the diamonds at 21st Street, Chicago, on an outbound passenger train in the 1950s. Classic Trains coll. […]
Southern Pacific’s narrow-gauge line in the vast Owens Valley of California was known as the “Slim Princess.” Here a single freight car separates engine from caboose near Zurich (Big Pine) in July 1959. William H. Mills photo […]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
The Rail Diesel Car (RDC) was the Budd Co.’s answer to declining passenger traffic during the post war. The demonstrator was introduced on Sept. 19, 1949, at Chicago Union Station. As described by Trains’ then-Associate Editor David P. Morgan in the November 1949 issue, this new rail-motor car was a combination of prior self-propelled technology, […]
Amtrak Toledo services have seen changes consistent with the rest of the national network in its 50-year history. Throughout its history, Amtrak trains have called upon the former New York Central station on Emerald Avenue at the south end of downtown. NYC opened the station, built with cream brick and copious amounts of glass block, […]
