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In September 1955, employees of New York short line Dansville & Mount Morris conduct repairs on former Lackawanna Mogul No. 565. D&MM would use one of its two steam engines in one year, the other in the next. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Framed by the road’s trademark color position-light signals, a Baltimore & Ohio freight passes Ashford Junction, N.Y., where B&O’s former Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad lines diverge to Rochester (left) and Buffalo (right). B&O was part of Chessie System at the time of this 1970s photo. Robert E. Gabbey photo […]
The Wabash’s Chicago–St. Louis Banner Blue rolls through Chicago Ridge, Ill., in August 1948. Carrying the markers is a classic open-platform parlor-observation car. The Banner Blue would remain an all-heavyweight train until 1960. Bob Borcherding photo […]
The Illinois Central’s depot at Emery, Ill., 9 miles north of Decatur on IC’s original line down the center of the state, served as a train-order station and also had a small freight room. Note the Western Union telegraph sign at the corner of the building. Classic Trains coll. […]
Workers at Missouri Pacific’s Sedalia (Mo.) shops line up in a “V for victory” formation in August 1942 in a ceremony to commemorate the last of 25 Sedalia-built 4-8-4s. Missouri Pacific photo […]
Handsome Rock Island 4-6-2 No. 922 steps across the Pennsylvania Railroad diamonds at Englewood Union Station as it departs with a Chicago–Blue Island suburban train in July 1952. W. H. N. Rossiter photo […]
Canadian National 4-6-2 No. 5125 departs Burlington, Ont., with a Hamilton–Allandale local in March 1957. The Pacific and two cars are pinch-hitting for the usually assigned gas-electric car on this run. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Three GP9s head a freight across the Nickel Plate Road’s double-track lift bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland in the late 1950s as the caboose of another train leaves the bridge. Herbert H. Harwood Jr. photo […]
Union Pacific E3A No. 5-M-1A and E3B No. 5-M-1B were bought – and lettered for – the road’s City of Los Angeles streamliner. However, on this July 1941 day they are at Denver, departing with the Pony Express. R. H. Kindig photo […]
Rio Grande 4001, a diesel-hydraulic built by Germany’s Krauss-Maffei, fills the window of a caboose cupola on Oct. 11, 1963. The exotic unit was testing in helper service between Denver and the Moffat Tunnel. R. P. Parsons photo […]
In the kitchen car of a Korean War-era troop train out of Fort Meade, Md., the cook tends to a giant pot on the stove as a soldier peels potatoes. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
An A-B set of E7 diesels brings Florida East Coast’s Gulfstream into the station at Daytona Beach, Fla., in the late 1940s or 1950s. Sam Appleby photo […]
