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Centercab diesel locomotive in front of engine shed

Preview Classic Trains‘ November 2023 content! Here’s a preview of what’s coming in the next month. Become a Trains.com member so you don’t miss any of this great content! If you have a story suggestion, email editor@classictrainsmag.com Smallest operating railroads in 1973 These 5 small railroads each operated just 2 mile of main line […]

Three-truck logging Shay

Meadow River Lumber Co. No. 7 is a good example of a three-truck, standard-gauge, coal-burning Shay with a Radley & Hunter stack. The West Virginia company used steam locomotives into the mid-1960s. Matt Coleman collection […]

Pioneer electrification

Baltimore & Ohio’s Howard Street Tunnel below downtown Baltimore was the site of the first “steam-railroad” electrification in America. This view at Mount Royal station is from shortly after the start of service in 1895. Classic Trains coll. […]

NYC’s Avon Yard

Located outside Indianapolis, Avon Yard was one of several modern freight classification yards New York Central opened in the 1950s. NYC photo […]

Neighbors at CP’s Windsor Station

Delaware & Hudson RS2 4001 and Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 2471 idle under the shed at Canadian Pacific’s Windsor Station, Montreal, in October 1953. The diesel has just arrived with the Laurentian from New York. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

Morrell meat reefers

Meatpacking firm John Morrell & Co. led the switch away from ice in refrigerator cars. Two of Morrell’s Mather cars converted to mechanical refrigeration head east on the Illinois Central’s Iowa Division in 1954. They were the first mechanical meat reefers. Basil W. Koob photo […]

City of Miami passenger train

The City of Miami passenger train one of three coordinated services linking Chicago with Miami. There was a time — like, as recently as 1979 — there was direct rail passenger service between the Upper Midwest (notably Chicago) and Florida. This ended with several slashes of Amtrak routes as a result of budget […]

Amtrak GE P30CH locomotive

The Amtrak GE P30CH locomotive is the spiritual successor to the GE U30CG passenger locomotive of 1967. Amtrak acquired 25 of the P30CH model, Nos. 700-724, between August 1975 and January 1976. The model designation led to the units’ nickname: “pooch.” It was essentially a U30C freight locomotive with a cowl body and […]