New Haven Railroad locomotives

Black-and-white photo of the noses of two streamlined diesel locomotives.

  All through September 2021, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. This week, editors have selected images from Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library to highlight the locomotives of the New Haven. Included in these are electric, diesel AND steam locomotives. Enjoy! […]

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Steam in snow

Steam locomotive moves freight train along snow-lined tracks

Steam in snow Milwaukee Road 2-8-2 No. 327 rolls south on the Indiana Harbor Belt at La Grange, Ill., in December 1950, bound for Terre Haute, Ind. Robert Milner photo […]

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Visit the Burlington Garden Center’s garden railroad

Scenic garden railway

Garden center owner Walt Uebele had an idea—build a garden railway to keep the husbands and kids entertained while the wives shopped. Little did he know that folks of all ages would love watching the trains run. Watch an interview conducted by Production Editor Rene Schweitzer about the railway and its beginnings, only on Trains.com! […]

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‘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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‘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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Steam locomotive arrives at Hoosier Valley museum

Small, ornately decorated steam locomotive

NORTH JUDSON, Ind. — An operable steam locomotive has arrived at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, moving the museum closer to offering steam excursions for the first time in more than a decade. Bock Lumber Co. No. 1, an 0-4-4T Forney-type locomotive build by Baldwin in 1908, arrived at the museum on Monday. The museum […]

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Kentucky Steam Heritage operates first excursion trains

Small steam locomotive pulling two cars

RAVENNA, Ky. — Train operations are now underway at the Kentucky-based nonprofit where steam locomotive C&O 2716 is being restored, and officials there are looking forward to larger-scale operations in the near future. On Saturday, Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. hosted train excursions for the first time in its six-year history to help celebrate the Ravenna […]

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