A few minutes out of Milwaukee, CMStP&P Pacific 192 rolls into suburban Wauwatosa, Wis., with train 23, an afternoon local to Madison in September 1954. Watching the action by the station steps is Trains magazine Editor David P. Morgan. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
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M.U. train at Spuyten Duyvil
Bound for Grand Central Terminal, a New York Central M.U. train passes under the Henry Hudson Parkway bridge at Spuyten Duyvil, N.Y., in the late 1940s or early ’50s. In the background, NYC’s line down the West Side of Manhattan bridges the Harlem River where the Harlem meets the Hudson. Herbert H. Harwood Jr. photo […]
Local train on the old BR&P
A Baltimore & Ohio class P-6 Pacific passes CM Tower at Du Bois, Pa., with Pittsburgh–Buffalo train 252 in September 1955. This is the old Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, which became part of B&O in 1932. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Late-blooming narrow-gauge
The New Berlin & Winfield was a 3-foot-gauge short line in central Pennsylvania extending from Winfield on the west shore of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River to New Berlin. It opened in 1905, quite late for a narrow-gauge common carrier. NB&W 2-6-0 No. 2, photographed at New Berlin around 1910, went to Argent […]
Trackside Photos: A Great Northern steamer, an Iowa Interstate grade crossing, a Zephyr on a bridge, and more
Send us your photos Trackside Photos is a showcase for the work of Model Railroader readers. Send your photos (digital images 5 megapixels or larger) to: Model Railroader, Trackside Photos, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612; or upload them to http://fileupload.kalmbach.com/contribute. For our photo submission guidelines, contact senior associate editor Steven Otte at sotte@kalmbach.com. […]
Excursion on the Ma & Pa
Between Dallastown Junction and Yoe, Pa., on the Maryland & Pennsylvania, railfans fill a flatcar outfitted with railings during a fantrip on Oct. 6, 1940. William M. Moedinger photo […]
EJ&E center-cab Baldwin near West Chicago
In a 1958 view from a car headed east on Roosevelt Road near West Chicago, Ill., an Elgin, Joliet & Eastern 2,000 h.p. Baldwin center-cab diesel crosses with a northbound freight train. Russ Porter photo […]
Central of Georgia’s postwar streamliners
Central of Georgia launched two new intrastate streamliners in 1947. At an unidentified location, the Atlanta–Savannah Nancy Hanks II (left) stands beside the Columbus–Atlanta Man o’ War. Central of Georgia photo […]
“Check out the new Diesel!”
People line up to tour the cab of brand-new Seaboard Air Line E4 passenger diesel No. 3001 in 1938. SAL’s 14 A units and 5 B units were the only Electro-Motive units to carry the E4 model designation. Louis A. Marre coll. […]
C&O 2700 near Catlettsburg, Ky.
Chesapeake & Ohio 2700, first of the road’s 2-8-4 Kanawha types, heads west with coal hoppers near Catlettsburg, Ky., in 1952. This engine survives on display at Dennison, Ohio. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Watering hogs on the UP
A triple-headed shower wets down the hogs riding in Union Pacific triple-deck cars at Dry Lake, Nev., on a hot July day in 1977. The train is the California Livestock Special, bound for Los Angeles. Steve Patterson photo […]
Texas on a turntable
At the Burlington Route’s Centralia, Ill., engine terminal in September 1954, a hostler rides the turntable with 2-10-4 6313 as sister 6311 and a Mikado stand in the distance. Philip R. Hastings photo […]