Santa Fe’s Chicago coach yard

Santa Fe Railway sleeper cars

Santa Fe 2401, a 1937 Electro-Motive model NW, switches heavyweight tourist sleepers in the road’s coach yard in Chicago. Special signs on their sides indicate the cars are assigned to the Chicago–Los Angeles Scout, which ceased to operate as a Chicago train in 1949. Classic Trains coll. […]

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Santa Fe’s Argentine freight house

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The Santa Fe built a large, new freight station at Argentine, Kan., in 1961. The office building portion included offices for agents, the railroad’s transportation company, and division freight traffic personnel. The facility featured indoor tracks and automated cart tracks for more efficient operation. Santa Fe photo […]

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PRR Atlantic on the LIRR

Pennsylvania Railroad

Pennsylvania Railroad E3sd 4-4-2 2999 passes B Tower in Bethpage, N.Y., with an eastbound Long Island Rail Road train in the 1930s. Controlled by the Pennsy between 1900 and 1966, LIRR often borrowed power from its parent. Pierre M. Ditto photo […]

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On Chicago’s ‘L’

Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad

A four-car Chicago Aurora & Elgin train heads away from the Loop as a Chicago Rapid Transit train heads inbound. Below the train are the south platforms of Chicago Union Station. Don Sims photo […]

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Northbound along Howe Sound

Pacific Great Eastern Railway

Two GE 70-tonners lead Pacific Great Eastern’s daily passenger train north from Squamish, B.C., in about 1950, several years before the line was extended down to North Vancouver and Rail Diesel Cars replaced the secondhand stock seen here. Linn H. Westcott photo […]

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NKP 759 in Virginia

Nickel Plate Road

High Iron Company’s Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 759 thunders down the Norfolk & Western main line with an excursion train at Natural Bridge, Va., in November 1968. Don Wood photo […]

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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western passenger trains

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The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad is Classic Trains’ railroad of the month for March 2022. Please enjoy this photo gallery highlighting DL&W passenger train images from Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library. This gallery was first published in August 2019.   Only from Trains.com! […]

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Indiana interurban

Indiana Railroad interurban terminal

Indiana Railroad RPO-coach 375 stands under the big trainshed at the Indianapolis interurban terminal in the late 1930s, a few years before IRR ended service. W. B. Cox coll. […]

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