A 4-6-2 Pacific leads a Milwaukee Road suburban train past the road’s Western Avenue coach yards in Chicago on an afternoon run from Union Station to Fox Lake, Ill., in 1948. Henry J. McCord photo […]
Milwaukee Road suburban train
Section: Photos
Dallas Union Terminal from above
Dallas’s Union Terminal hosted trains from eight railroads and featured through tracks. The tracks at upper right lead to a coach yard. Historic American Engineering Record photo […]
CN 4-8-4 at Hamilton Junction
Canadian National 4-8-4 6232 swings through Hamilton Junction, Ont., with a passenger extra for Hamilton in 1958, when steam was mostly gone from U.S. main lines but still going strong in parts of Canada. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Brand-new C&NW class H
A crewman climbs aboard Chicago & North Western class H No. 3017 on Nov. 17, 1929, six days after the 4-8-4 arrived from Baldwin. The engine is being broken in on the main line west of Chicago. A. W. Johnson photo […]
Almost a road-switcher
Missouri Pacific 4102 and 4103 were Electro-Motive’s only model NW4 locomotives. Built in 1938 using 900 h.p. Winton 201A engines, road trucks, and other components from experimental box-cab passenger units 511 and 512, the steam-generator-equipped diesels possessed some of the characteristics of a road-switcher. Electro-Motive photo […]
A Mikado out West, a Reading diesel in Pennsylvania, and a UP freight on the Plains
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UP’s ‘Los Angeles Limited’
On the eastern fringes of the Los Angeles area, a Union Pacific freight train is safely in a siding for a meet with train 1, the westbound Los Angeles Limited, powered by 4-8-4 No. 821 in the road’s postwar “greyhound” paint scheme. Fletcher Swan photo […]
Spokane Portland and Seattle passenger trains
Spokane Portland and Seattle passenger trains: All through August 2022, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was the product of sparring during 1905-1909 between “Empire Builder” James J. Hill of the Great Northern and Edward H. Harriman of the Union […]
Rock Island FA diesel
Rock Island FA diesels 151 and 145 doublehead with 4-8-4 5119 on a westbound freight at Joliet, Ill., in fall 1951. The train is passing JD tower, where RI crossed the Santa Fe and GM&O. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
E7 on B&M’s Mountaineer
Brand-new E7 3810 leads Boston & Maine’s Mountaineer out of Boston in June 1946. The diesel illustrates the as-delivered scheme of B&M’s E7’s, with silver at the rear of the maroon and yellow carbody. Albert G. Hale photo […]
Doubleheaded MoPac Berkshires
Two of Missouri Pacific’s 25 2-8-4 Berkshires, built by Lima in 1935, get under way with a freight at St. Louis. H. F. Harvey coll. […]
DL109’s with New Haven’s Merchants Limited
Two Alco DL109’s roll the New Haven’s crack New York–Boston Merchants Limited through East Haven, Conn., in mid-1947. The last all-parlor-car train in the U.S., the Merchants got coaches in 1949. T. J. Donahue photo […]
