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TCA Gulf Coast Chapter, Lone Star Division 2015 winter train meet
Name: Joe Muscanere Railroad Name: TCA Gulf Coast Chapter Layouts Location: Houston, Texas Scale: O, S, Standard Description: TRAIN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION LONE STAR DIVISION GULF COAST CHAPTER 2015 WINTER TRAIN MEET O Gauge, S Gauge, and Standard Gauge model trains running at the TCA Lone Star Division Winter Train Meet held January 3, 2015 in […]
TCA Gulf Coast Chapter, Lone Star Division 2015 winter train meet
Name: Joe Muscanere Railroad Name: TCA Gulf Coast Chapter Layouts Location: Houston, Texas Scale: O, S, Standard Description: TRAIN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION LONE STAR DIVISION GULF COAST CHAPTER 2015 WINTER TRAIN MEET O Gauge, S Gauge, and Standard Gauge model trains running at the TCA Lone Star Division Winter Train Meet held January 3, 2015 in […]
Rolling heritage
Many paint schemes are on display on Canadian Pacific at Drake, N.D., in September 2010. Photo by Mark Jackson […]
San Francisco Chief connection
Santa Fe trains 93, the West Texas Express, and 94, the Eastern Express, were the Amarillo–Lubbock connection for the San Francisco Chief. Between 1955 and 1965, the trains looked like this: an E8M (rebuilt from an E1), baggage-express car, coach, and sleeper. Fred M. Springer photo […]
Serving the president of the Katy
The Katy-Frisco Texas Special, a favorite conveyance for the Katy president’s business car, arrives in St. Louis in 1956. Fred Scott My railroad-related career started in 1941, when I was hired as a stenographer by the South-Western Freight Bureau in St. Louis. It was readily accepted for a young man who had studied shorthand and […]
The electric social train
The “Crandic” interurban was a safe way for University of Iowa students to travel to and from parties at Cou Falls, 15 miles north of Iowa City. Crandic car 120 is near the Cou Falls station shelter in May 1944. Classic Trains coll. The Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway, universally known by the abbreviation […]
Perspective play
Three Fort Worth & Western Railroad locomotives line up in an accidental perspective shot at Cresson, Texas, on May 30, 2013. Photo by Steve Sweeney […]
First train to Tower Grove usually wins
St. Louis, late 1940s: After a “race” that was not as close as the one author John Mills saw in 1941, MP 4-6-2 5327 rolls the Missourian past a Terminal Railroad Association Baldwin diesel as Frisco 4-8-2 4401 backs the Will Rogers into Union Station. Harold E. Williams What could be more exciting to an 11-year-old […]
Humping at North Platte
Union Pacific NW2 No. 1091, with extra ballast and low-speed gearing, shoves the last cars of a freight train up the hump. Behind the diesel is the new yard’s car-inspection station. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Getting to know Miss Katy
In February 1944, Katy 2-8-2 910 rolls into Denton, Texas, with empty tank cars, probably destined for a refill in the Oklahoma oil fields. Frank Rogers During the fall and winter of 1943-44, I was in the Army’s Specialized Training Program at North Texas State Teachers College in Denton, Texas, about 35 miles north of […]
Running through!
An eastbound run through train between the Southern Pacific and Seaboard Coast Line between Houston, Texas, and Jacksonville, Fla., rumbles through Orange, Texas, behind a trio of SCL units, two U30Bs and a GP30. The date is May 1972. Photo by J. Parker Lamb Jr. […]
