Amtrak St Louis services have included routes to the East, Southwest, and other Midwest points throughout its 50-plus-year history. At one time, the Gateway City was a secondary Midwest hub for Amtrak. Long-distance trains serving St. Louis through the years included the Inter-American, National Limited, and Texas Eagle. Additional short-distance trains include services to Chicago […]
The Union Pacific’s 3500-class 2-8-8-0s were often found lugging freights in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Here, No. 3532 pulls 70 cars of an extra freight upgrade west of La Grande, Ore., in July 1948. Henry R. Griffiths Jr. photo […]
Soldiers transfer from a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis troop train to trucks at the Army’s Camp Forrest near Tullahoma, Tenn., in 1942. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo […]
Near Robinson, La., southeast of Shreveport, four Texas & Pacific F7s and one GP7 power a westbound freight in early 1959. A. E. Brown photo […]
Pacific 5127, leased from parent Canadian National, pauses at Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific’s elevated station (hidden behind train) in West Duluth, Minn., with the overnight accommodation from Fort Frances, Ont., in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
On the 3-foot-gauge East Broad Top, Reading Company boxcar 102395 — transferred to narrow-gauge trucks at the PRR-EBT interchange at Mount Union, Pa. — rides between an EBT 2-8-2 Mikado and hopper car. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Southern Railway GP7 129 heads a ballast-cleaning train in operation on the “Rathole Division” near Dry Ridge, Ky., in July 1971. William J. Husa Jr. photo […]
A 1944 photo shows an eastbound Santa Fe freight on the horseshoe curve east of Welch, Ariz. FT diesel 126 (foreground) is on the head end; a steam helper (background) is shoving hard on the caboose. Charles W. Lindenberg photo […]
Although I’ve never been great with a camera, I’ve enjoyed a life immersed in railroad photography, thanks to my good fortune at being able to edit railroad magazines for most of the past 40 years. I’ve had my favorites, of course, but I’ve tried to be as neutral as possible when it came to […]
An A-B-B-A set of Denver & Rio Grande Western F7s heads west out of Granby, Colo., west of the Moffat Tunnel, with a train heavy with refrigerator cars in 1959. D. J. Davidson photo […]
Elderly Milwaukee Road 2-6-2 No. 926 switches cars at Merton, Wis., as it works its way back toward Milwaukee from the end of the North Lake Branch in the late 1940s. Classic Trains coll. […]
Rock Island train 34 rocks and rolls its way into the yard at El Dorado, Ark., in February 1980, a few months before the troubled carrier shut down. Paul D. Schneider photo […]
