Chicago & Eastern Illinois 4-6-2 No. 1016 dashes through the South Side of Chicago with the outbound Dixie Express in 1946. R. R. Malinoski photo […]
C&EI’s ‘Dixie Express’ departs Chicago
Section: Photo of the Day
Baltimore & Annapolis fan trip
Railfans fill the five cars of a Philadelphia Chapter, NRHS, excursion on the Baltimore & Annapolis. The train is southbound between Baltimore and Linthicum Jct. on Apr. 7, 1940, a decade before the interurban ended passenger service. William M. Moedinger photo […]
B&O EM-1 and Big Six
In the Potomac River narrows west of Cumberland, Md., on Baltimore & Ohio’s main line to Pittsburgh, EM-1 2-8-8-4 7613 and 2-10-2 6222 doublehead on a westbound freight in May 1952. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Western Maryland thunder
WM Consolidations 840 and 816 shake the earth and blacken the sky as they restart their train at Thomas, W.Va., in May 1952. Out of view, five more 2-8-0s assist at mid-train and on the rear. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Texas in Texas
Trackmen stand back to let a Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 pass with a freight climbing Baird Hill, about 15 miles east of Abilene, Tex. T&P photo […]
Tennessee Ten-Wheeler
Chicago, Memphis & Gulf 4-6-0 No. 2, built by Rogers in 1884, was first owned by Chesapeake & Ohio, then Illinois Central, and then, after 1906, CM&G, a 52-mile short line between Dyersburg and Hickman, Ky. The Ten-Wheeler, missing a cylinder head, is pictured at Dyersburg in 1912. C. W. Whitbeck coll. […]
Ship-to-train transfer
In a 1953 view from Canadian Pacific’s S.S. Princess Helene docked at Digby, Nova Scotia, after a trip over the Bay of Fundy from Saint John, New Brunswick, a CP 4-6-2 backs the head-end cars of train 98 out onto the pier to receive baggage and mail from the ship. Another engine will bring 98’s […]
Saluda in the rain
Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4505 — sister to excursion star 4501 — tramps up Saluda Grade in the pouring rain on Aug. 3, 1950. You can bet there’s another engine shoving hard on the rear to get the train up the 4.7 percent grade. August A. Thieme Jr. photo […]
Nickel Plate Berkshires meet
In a 1954 view from the running board of NKP Berkshire 703, standing in the siding at New Douglas, Ill., with freight 49, sister 710 roars by with eastbound 98. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 on Tennessee Pass
Denver & Rio Grande Western 3600, first of the road’s 20 superb L-131 and L-132 2-8-8-2s, crosses the Arkansas River west of Princeton, Colo., with a westbound freight. LeRoy Wilkie photo […]
Nashville’s REA terminal
Baggage-express cars are spotted at Railway Express Agency’s Nashville terminal in 1962. Several of REA’s distinctive delivery trucks can be seen on the other side of the building. Railway Express Agency photo […]
Narrow gauge electric line
The 3-foot-gauge Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn was built in 1875 and in 1928 electrified its double-track line along the shore north of Boston. Business was brisk at first, as attested by this scene at Crescent Beach, Mass. Nevertheless, the BRB&L was abandoned in 1940. General Electric photo […]
