‘Crescent Limited’

Open platform passenger car aside brick station with steam locomotive nose

Crescent Limited At an unknown station on an unknown date, Crescent Limited passengers enjoy the open rear platform of the Southern Railway train’s sleeper-observation car as a Ps-2 light Pacific passes. F. S. McKay photo […]

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New Haven Railroad freight trains

Black-and-white photo of steam locomotive with short freight train.

  Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history, heritage, and style of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad all through September 2021. Please enjoy this photo gallery selected from the archives of Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library. Only from Trains.com!   […]

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‘San Francisco Overland’

Steam and diesel locomotives line up in passenger station

San Francisco Overland Future excursion locomotive UP 844, having just taken over for an SP locomotive, departs Ogden Union Station with the San Francisco Overland on June 18, 1950. The Fairbanks-Morse “Erie-built” diesels at right will follow with the Los Angeles Limited. Don Sims photo […]

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Dixie Line

Man in coveralls stands by blue and gray streamlined diesel locomotive in profile

Dixie Line The Nashville, Chattanooga, & St. Louis rostered 23 F7A and eight F7B units, built 1949-51. Mainline freight and passenger trains were dieselized with GP7s and F units starting in 1948 with the last steam operating in 1953. It was merged into parent Louisville & Nashville in 1957. Linn H. Westcott photo […]

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‘Erie Limited’

Steam locomotive with passenger train on hillside above river valley

‘Erie Limited’ The Erie Limited’s route takes it through some of the best scenery in the East. Far above he Susquehanna River and the Delaware & Hudson main line, westbound train No. 1 approaches famed Starrucca Viaduct. Erie Railroad photo […]

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Bristol brothers

Green and white diesel lines up beside streamlined black and maroon steam locomotive

Bristol brothers Southern and Norfolk & Western shared the N&W roundhouse, located on the Virginia side of Bristol. SOU F3 4151 and N&W J 602 wait to take trains west and east, respectively, on March 2, 1957. Steve Patterson photo   […]

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California Zephyr: Amtrak’s legendary passenger train

Stainless steel round-end dome-observation car

California Zephyr introduction California Zephyr journeys are scenic and today’s Zephyr in many ways still reprises the advertising slogan of its originators after the “Silver Lady” made its maiden run in March 1949: “The most talked-about train in America.” The Zephyr operates daily between Chicago and Emeryville, Calif., just across the bay from San Francisco. […]

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Galewood Yard

Freight cars line up in a rail yard seen from above

Galewood Yard The Milwaukee Road’s Galewood Yard in Chicago supported numerous rail-served industries on the city’s west side. A variety of freight cars are visible in this undated view, including boxcars, gondolas, and hoppers of both steel and wood construction. Milwaukee Road photo […]

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New Haven Railroad passenger trains

a diesel passenger train

  All through September 2021, Classic Trains is celebrating the verve, grit, and glamour that was the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Please enjoy this image gallery of New Haven passenger trains selected from Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library and first published in February 2020. Only from Trains.com! […]

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Pecos River crossing

Steam-powered passenger train on deck truss bridge supported by concrete piers

Pecos River crossing Southern Pacific’s crossing over the Pecos River 65 miles west of Del Rio, Texas, stands 362 feet above the river. It opened in 1944. Southern Pacific photo […]

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