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Icing station on the Erie

At an icing station on the Erie Railroad, crushed ice is dumped into refrigerator cars from a cart on the upper level through a funnel that rides on tracks at the platform edge. Erie Railroad photo […]

GN’s Western Star and Empire Builder

A Great Northern public timetable for Summer 1951 showcases the road’s two Chicago–Seattle/Portland streamliners, the new Western Star and the newly re-equipped Empire Builder. Classic Trains coll. […]

E7 diesels on the Afternoon Hiawatha

The Milwaukee Road’s Afternoon Hiawatha, led by two orange-and-gray E7 diesels, picks up speed outside of Minneapolis en route to Chicago on Oct. 13, 1947. James G. La Vake photo […]

C&NW narrow-gauge Mogul

Chicago & North Western 3-foot-gauge Mogul No. 279 stands at Fennimore, Wis., in 1925. Known as “The Dinky,” the North Western’s narrow-gauge line ran 16.4 miles from a C&NW standard-gauge connection at Fennimore to Woodman, on the Milwaukee Road’s Madison–Prairie du Chien, Wis., line. One of the last slim-gauge lines in the Midwest, The Dinky […]

2-8-2T logging engine

Simpson Lumber Co. No. 12, a 2-8-2T with tender, waits at the loading spar. By this 1949 view, the Washington line was a truck-to-rail reload operation. Fred Matthews photo […]

Morning at L.A. Union Station

Santa Fe F7 No. 311 prepares to depart Track 5 at Los Angeles Union Station with the first San Diegan of the day, while the Rock Island/Southern Pacific Golden State, just in from Chicago, stands on Track 4. William D. Middleton photo […]

Monon’s Tippecanoe

An F3 leads the five cars of Monon’s Chicago–Indianapolis Tippecanoe across the Grand Calumet River in Hammond, Ind., on May 30, 1953. R. R. Malinoski photo […]

Doubleheader on Sherman Hill

Union Pacific 2-8-2 2250 assists 2-8-8-2 3572, acquired from the Chesapeake & Ohio to move wartime freight, up Sherman Hill in Wyoming sometime in 1946. R. H. Kindig photo […]

Locomotive models in Bicentennial paint

Color image of electric locomotive in patriotic paint scheme.

With Independence Day just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at some N and HO scale locomotive models in Bicentennial paint schemes. As the 200th birthday of the United States approached, numerous prototype railroads renumbered and repainted locomotives in patriotic schemes to pay tribute to the nation. […]