Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger trains: All through June 2024, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of “The Chicago Line.” Please enjoy this photo gallery of Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger trains, originally published online in 2015. […]
Employees of New Jersey short line Union Transportation Co. use pinch bars and muscle power to move a car of coal a few feet at New Egypt. As coal is released from the hopper doors it is fed by hand-shoveling to the power-driven conveyor for loading into the tender of the line’s only engine, leased […]
Welcome – Pennsy perspective Head End – A potpourri of railroad history, then and now Fast Mail – Letters from readers on our Winter 2023 issue Mileposts – Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe True Color – Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Maumee River crossing Short Rails – Manufacturers Railway Co. The Way It Was – Tales […]
Four GP9s climb west on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line with empty hoppers to be reloaded with coal in the late 1950s. Classic Trains coll. […]
Pacific 801 leads Rio Grande train 10, the local from Craig, Colo., to Denver, out of Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliff on Dec. 31, 1950. Otto Perry photo […]
One of the Chicago & Illinois Midland’s distinctive green-and-red cabooses trails 85 empty coal hoppers heading south at Atterbury, Ill., in May 1952. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Like many other railfans back in the mid-1960s, I was shooting using black & white negative film essentially on an exclusive basis. Reasons for this included budget (color slide film and processing were more expensive than monochrome), camera quality issues (it turned out that my Argus C-3 could do a reasonably good job with […]
Chicago & Eastern Illinois history was special to those to watched the railroad firsthand. In the pantheon of great railroad names, “Chicago” was so often the magic word. Think of all the carriers with Chicago on their letterhead, railroads with thousands of miles on their system maps, railroads whose names imply vast, continental […]
Just out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Kansas City Southern E8 leads the Southern Belle past Clara Street tower in 1954. The tower was situated between the terminal to the south and the coach yard and diesel shop to the north. James G. La Vake photo […]
In the late 1930s and early 1940s the venerable Lehigh Valley streamlined several of its named passenger trains. This is the John Wilkes, decked in Cornell red, near Glen Onoko, Pa., in 1939. Wayne Brumbaugh photo […]
Minneapolis & St. Louis G6-24 class 4-6-0 No. 226, built by Baldwin in 1909, backs a train into Story City, Iowa, in February 1947. The town, at the end of a branch from Minerva Jct., near Marshalltown, also saw service from the Chicago & North Western. William F. Armstrong photo […]
Some careers are more than just a way to make a living. Sometimes they represent history itself. The trick is to recognize that about yourself and plan appropriately. Anyone who cares about railroading in general over the past half-century, or about motive-power technology in particular, can be grateful that Preston Cook came to that realization […]
