PRR’s new ‘Congressional’

20160721

Brand-new from Budd, cars for the Pennsylvania’s Congressional glisten under the lights at 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, during a March 1952 publicity run to preview the new equipment for the press. Classic Trains coll. […]

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MoPac Mikado

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Bound for the main line at Gorham, Ill., Missouri Pacific 2-8-2 1498 slogs uphill out of DeSoto, Ill., with coal loads in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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Icing station on the Erie

20160722

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 […]

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Delaware & Hudson passenger trains remembered

Wooden coaches on Albany–Binghamton train 208 at Albany Union Station, circa 1945–46.

Delaware & Hudson passenger trains     All through July 2023, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the grit and grandeur of the Delaware & Hudson in its bicentennial year. Please enjoy this photo gallery of Kansas City Southern passenger trains selected from the files in Kalmbach Media‘s David P. Morgan Library.   Only from Trains.com! […]

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C&NW narrow-gauge Mogul

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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 […]

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