Ambassador

Diesel powered passenger train on river bridge

Ambassador The northbound day train to Montreal, known as the Ambassador, crosses the Connecticut River near Windsor, Vt. It exemplifies the mixed consist the train carried of Boston & Maine, Central Vermont, and New Haven equipment. […]

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Train 4

Steam locomotive with passenger train

Train 4 Pere Marquette’s unnamed Grand Rapids–Detroit train 4 rolls through Trowbridge, Mich., in 1940. Locomotive 712 is one of 12 class SP-3 4-6-2 Pacifics built by Alco’s Brooks works in January 1921. Classic Trains collection […]

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Camelback ‘Comet’

Steam locomotive waits by water tower

Camelback Comet Jersey Central Camelback 592 (now preserved in Baltimore) pinch-hits for a regularly assigned 4-6-2 on the Blue Comet at Hammonton, N.J., in the 1930s. With drivers up to 86 inches, Atlantics ruled on fast trains in the 1890s and 1900s before Pacifics superseded them. Granville Thomas photo […]

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Passenger Geep

Nose of diesel locomotive in black and white

Passenger Geep Southern Railway GP7 No. 2164 was in local service in eastern North Carolina when this image was made in September 1965. Note the steam generator exhaust stack to the right of the bell. Curt Tillotson Jr. photo […]

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‘Silver Meteor’

Passenger train going around curve

Silver Meteor The northbound Amtrak Silver Meteor from Miami rounds Honeymoon Wye on the way into Jacksonville, Fla., on June 16, 1976. A single EMD SDP40F leads the consist on this day. Jack M. Turner photo […]

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Hard knock life

Men working on railroad tracks

Hard knock life Northern Pacific track workers labor near new Bozeman Tunnel in Montana in 1945. Regardless of the location track workers had a hard, dirty job. Northern Pacific photo […]

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Remembering Reading Company locomotives

Black-and-white three-quarter angle photo of 4-8-4 steam locomotive in action

All through October, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the gritty, coal-hauling, Pennsylvania-based Reading Company railroad. Please enjoy this photo gallery of Reading freight trains selected from the image archives of Kalmbach Media‘s David P. Morgan Library. Reading Company, as a railroad, disappeared into Conrail more than 40 years ago. But it is still possible to […]

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Gaspe peninsula

Passenger train waits at waterside station

Gaspe peninsula Canadian National train 119 is at the division point of New Carlisle, 104 miles into its 202-mile trip from Gaspe to Matapedia in 1975. Bill Linley photo     […]

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