Canadian National kept its fleet of Moguls in service the longest, until 1959. No. 86 was built in 1910 by the Canadian Locomotive Co. as Grand Trunk No. 1006, and renumbered twice, before it was photographed leading a mixed train through Ontario in July 1957. Herbert Harwood, Jr. The 2-6-0 was an outgrowth of the […]
On October 19, 1951, three Delaware & Hudson 2-8-0s shove a heavy freight out of Carbondale, Pa. Robert F. Collins The first 2-8-0 was delivered to the Lehigh Valley in 1866 for operation over the mountain grades of the railroad’s Mount Carmel Branch in Pennsylvania. The locomotive was built by Baldwin, but had been designed […]
Northern Pacific’s last batch of 2-8-2s came from Alco in 1923. One member of the class, No. 1843, blasts through Thompson Falls, Mont., with a 73-car freight train on September 22, 1940. J. W. Maxwell The first true North American 2-8-2s were built by Alco for the Northern Pacific in 1904. (Experimental locomotives with the […]
One of Nickel Plate’s handsome Berkshires leads a westward freight across the Grand River bridge in Painesville, Ohio. No. 802 was originally built for the Wheeling & Lake Erie in 1937, then went to work for the Nickel Plate Road in 1949 when the NKP leased the W&LE. John A. Rehor During the 1920s, America’s […]
Two Pennsylvania Railroad Decapods shove a heavy freight around Horseshoe Curve in the Allegheny Mountains. H. W. Pontin, Railroad Photographic Club The first 2-10-0s were built for the Lehigh Valley in 1867. They were not, however, a success. Their long rigid wheelbase was too much for the track, and the two locomotives were later rebuilt […]
Santa Fe No. 900 was part of the railroad’s first class of 2-10-2s, delivered by Baldwin between 1903 and 1904. Photographed at Raton, N.M., on May 3, 1950. C. C. Trinbham Differences of decades: The design of the final class of 2-10-2s built for the Santa Fe could be traced to the 2-8-2, rather than […]
Central Vermont 2-10-4 No. 703 puts on quite a show rolling through Sudbury, Vt., with a northward freight in 1955. Paul A. Reynolds In 1925, just four months after demonstrating its new 2-8-4 on the Boston & Albany, Lima received an order from the Texas & Pacific for the first 2-10-4s. The ten engines ordered […]
New York Central 4-4-0 No. 999 earned a place in history when it reached a speed of 112.5 mph while pulling the four-car Empire State Express between Batavia and Buffalo, N.Y., on May 10, 1893. This publicity shot, made after her world-famous run, clearly shows the locomotive’s uncommonly large 86-inch driving wheels. New York Central […]
The Pennsylvania Railroad built 90 G5s class 4-6-0s between 1923 and 1925. Ten-Wheeler No. 1963 was photographed pulling away from the coaling dock at Fort Wayne, Ind., with a westbound passenger train in October 1947. J. R. Crosby The first Ten-Wheelers appeared in the late 1840s. They grew out of the need for a locomotive […]
Santa Fe owned the largest fleet of Atlantics, and kept a handful in service until 1953. No. 1468, a 1909 Baldwin, was pinch-hitting for an ailing gas-electric car when it pulled up to the depot at Riverside, Calif., with a westbound train on January 14, 1941. Jack Whitmeyer In the 1890s there was a general […]
C&NW subsidiary Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha owned the world’s heaviest and most powerful Pacifics. No. 602 – one of the road’s three giant 4-6-2s, built by Alco in 1930 – blasts through St. Paul, Minn., with train 514 on July 5, 1953. W. H. N. Rossiter The 4-6-2, or Pacific type, grew out […]
Henry Dreyfus created the timeless design worn by the streamlined 4-6-4s that pulled the Twentieth Century Limited. New York Central rostered North America’s largest fleet of Hudsons. In this photo, one of the speedsters prepares to depart LaSalle St. Station in Chicago. W.C. Merle, II In the early 1920s, as passenger train lengths grew and […]
