Construction of the Lackawanna Railroad’s colossal viaduct over Tunkhannock Creek at Nicholson, Pa., is in its early stages in this photo from Oct. 21, 1913. Nicholson Public Library photo […]
Building Nicholson Viaduct
Section: Photo of the Day
B&O Pacific in a hurry
Baltimore & Ohio class P-5 No. 5227, a USRA light Pacific, hurries through North Bend, Ohio, with overnight St. Louis–Cincinnati local train 30 in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Pullman family vacation
In a classic postwar publicity photo on a new Chesapeake & Ohio sleeping car, a family enjoys the comforts of a pair of double bedrooms with the dividing partition drawn back to create one large space containing four beds. C&O photo […]
On the old BR&P
At Du Bois, Pa., on Baltimore & Ohio’s former Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh lines, a B&O Pacific swings by Tower CM with Pittsburgh–Buffalo train 252, discontinued not long after this September 1955 photo. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Virginian box-cab electrics
A trio of the Virginian Railway’s original box-cab electrics rolls downgrade with a freight at Oakdale, W.Va., in September 1953. The road electrified its main line between Mullens, W.Va., and Roanoke, Va., in the mid-1920s. Richard J. Cook photo […]
U-boats on a New Haven freight
Three GE U25Bs lead New Haven Railroad eastbound symbol freight OB-6 on the Maybrook Line about 3 miles east of Danbury, Conn., in March 1966. John P. Ahrens photo […]
The Chief enters Chicago
Santa Fe’s all-Pullman Chief from Los Angeles has just passed through the busy interlocking at 21st Street, Chicago, as it nears the end of its run at Dearborn Station in October 1950. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Yosemite Valley train at El Portal
Yosemite Valley Railway 4-4-0 No. 22 stands with a short train at El Portal, end of the line and gateway to Yosemite National Park, in 1940. YV ran 78 miles west to SP and Santa Fe connections at Merced, Calif.; its last run was in 1945. Harre W. Demoro photo […]
NYC Pacemaker freight
The Boston–Albany section of New York Central’s Pacemaker train for express freight service pauses at Worcester, Mass., to pick up cars in August 1949. The distinctive vermillion-and-gray boxcars were for on-line use only. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Polished Ps-4
Southern Railway 4-6-2 1395, one of the road’s class Ps-4 passenger engines revered for their handsome lines and green-and-gold livery, takes a passenger train out of Washington, D.C., in the late 1930s or ’40s. Walter H. Thrall photo […]
PRSL Baldwin diesels on a freight
Two Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines AS16 road-switchers work a freight through Glassboro, N.J., in 1955. The dual-service units were equally at home on passenger trains. Frank Kozempel photo […]
Rio Grande GP30 No. 3008
The Denver & Rio Grande Western was an early customer for EMD’s GP30, buying 28 of them during 1962-63. They were the first road units delivered in plain black with “Grande gold” striping on the ends and frame. Hillard N. Proctor photo […]
