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‘Delaware & Hudson: The Final Years, 1968 to 1991’ book review

Cover of Delaware Hudson The Final Years book

Many railroads saw their definitive histories written in the mid-20th century. For the Delaware & Hudson, that was Jim Shaughnessy’s, published in 1967. Delaware & Hudson: The Final Years is a 416-page volume that picks up D&H history where the first one leaves off, taking it through the road’s January 1991 acquisition by Canadian Pacific. […]

L&N’s Humming Bird at New Orleans

Louisville and Nashville Railroad E7s in New Orleans

Louisville & Nashville E7s 761 and 756 are ready to depart the road’s Canal Street Station, New Orleans, with the Humming Bird for Cincinnati sometime in the 1950s. L&NHS collection […]

Fancy-dress boxcar

Texas and Pacific Railway express boxcar

This Texas & Pacific express boxcar (note the steam and signal lines) is labeled for mail storage and painted in the road’s passenger colors. Roy C. Meates photo […]

Bangor & Aroostook passenger trains

Bangor & Aroostook passenger trains Bangor & Aroostook passenger trains: All through October 2022, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history, heritage, spirit, and grit of the Bangor & Aroostook, also known as the BAR by some. Please enjoy this photo gallery first published in January 2016 from images selected from Kalmbach Media’s David P. […]

CP’s experimental 2-10-4

In 1931, two years after placing in service a fleet of 20 conventional 2-10-4s, Canadian Pacific constructed an experimental version. Class T4a No. 8000 had three cylinders and a multi-pressure boiler that supplied 250 PSI steam to the two outside cylinders and 850 PSI steam to the inside cylinder. It was retired in 1936. Classic […]

CNJ’s Jersey City terminal, 1953

Passengers amble down the platform and a carman makes a final check as Central Railroad of New Jersey’s 12:38 p.m. local to Dunellen prepares to depart Jersey City in 1953. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

CN 4-6-0 in Winnipeg

Canadian National Ten-Wheeler at Fort Rouge Yard

Canadian National Ten-Wheeler 1357, pulling an express reefer and heavyweight baggage car and coach, has just arrived at the Fort Rouge yard from the CN station in downtown Winnipeg in September 1958. Franklin A. King photo […]

C&NW 4-4-2 on a suburban train

Steam Chicago & North Western locomotives with passenger train in snow

Chicago & North Western 4-4-2 1316, a high-wheeled class D from the first decade of the 20th century — is at Glen Ellyn, Ill., with a train for Chicago in February 1944. It’s 5 degrees below zero, making for a lively display of condensing steam. Robert Nicholls photo […]