Ready for service at the head of the Milwaukee Road’s 100-mph Hiawatha trains, a brand-new F7 streamlined 4-6-4 shows off its cab interior. Classic Trains coll. […]
Hiawatha 4-6-4 cab
Section: Photos
Grand Trunk Western F3s on freight
Two Grand Trunk Western F3s, dressed in the memorable but short-lived livery of parent Canadian National, wheel fast freight 492 (68 cars, all loads, including 63 reefers) near GTW’s crossing with the Pennsy and Nickel Plate west of Valparaiso, Ind., in May 1953. R. R. Malinoski photo […]
Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville fan trip
During an October 15, 1950, excursion, Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Alco S2 No. 20 stands beside the short line’s substantial headquarters building at Gloversville with a consist of two cabooses, two wooden combines, and a gondola car. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Corn Belt Rocket at Des Moines
Passengers wait in the shade at Des Moines, Iowa, as Rock Island train 10, the Corn Belt Rocket from Omaha, pulls in on April 15, 1960. Ed Wojtas photo […]
A visit to Wabtec’s Fort Worth factory
Wabtec’s Fort Worth plant FORT WORTH, Texas — In October 2022, following my attendance at the Railway Supply Institute Expo and Technical Conference, I also had a chance to visit Wabtec’s locomotive assembly plant in Fort Worth. My visit happened to fall on the day Canadian National accepted the first of a series of 50 […]
Clearing a Rio Grande rotary
During an epic battle to reopen Cumbres Pass after a late December 1951 storm, a worker uses a shovel to clear the discharge chute of Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge rotary OM of heavy, wet snow. John Norwood photo […]
BL2 at Muskegon
EMD’s BL2 of 1948–49 was conceived to be as versatile as a road-switcher yet attractive enough to give passenger trains a respectable appearance. Chesapeake & Ohio 1841 illustrates the BL2’s bi-directionality as it idles at the head of a passenger train at Muskegon, Mich., in the 1950s. David W. Richter photo […]
B&O tower at Deshler, Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio’s DR Tower, pictured before daybreak in 1952, guards the crossing of the road’s Chicago and Toledo divisions at the small town of Deshler in northwest Ohio. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Amtrak’s year-old ‘Broadway Limited’
With just two cars still in Union Pacific yellow, Amtrak’s Broadway Limited departs Chicago for New York on May 21, 1972. J. David Ingles photo […]
4-8-4 entering Moffat Tunnel
Rio Grande engine 1703, from the road’s first group of 4-8-4s, heads a westbound train out of Denver into the 6.2-mile darkness of Moffat Tunnel in August 1950. W. R. Berg Jr. photo […]
‘Olympian Hiawatha’ coach
Among the cars built for the Milwaukee Road’s 1947 Olympian Hiawatha were 52-seat coaches, produced in the road’s own shops. The interior paneling matched the exterior paint scheme, which was soon modified. MILW photo […]
NYC 2-6-6-2 in West Virginia
A long way from the broad, flat Water Level Route, New York Central 2-6-6-2 Mallet 1940 is seen in an undated photo on the road’s line to Charleston and other West Virginia points. Classic Trains collection […]
