Mountain meet Pennsylvania Railroad GP9s on westbound piggyback train TT1 pass J1 class 2-10-4 No. 6166, which has stopped on the main line near Johnstown, Pa., to take water from an overhead spout, in September 1956. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
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B&O steam Baltimore & Ohio S-1 class 2-10-2 No. 6174 backs up the hump at Willard, Ohio, with reefers. The railroad had 125 such locomotives in the class, built by Baldwin and Lima between 1923 and 1926. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
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Union Pacific mixed train Consolidation 284 leads Union Pacific train 386, a mixed train on the road’s Idaho Northern Branch, near Smith’s Ferry, Idaho, in December 1947. R. H. Kindig photo […]
Dead line
Various BNSF Railway yard switchers sit in storage at Galesburg, Ill., in October 2010, waiting for their next assignment. Photo by William B. Cecil […]
Original heritage
Norfolk Southern GP59 No. 4610, the railroad’s original heritage unit, sits at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga for Railfest 2011 on Sept. 3. The locomotive has since been repainted. Photo by Bradley Bates […]
Erie revival
Norfolk Southern SD70ACe No. 1068, the Erie-painted heritage unit, leads train No. 301 from Decatur, Ill., to St. Louis, Mo. on Feb. 12, 2014. The train is seen at Stonington, Ill., on the former Wabash main line. Photo by Bruce Bird […]
One of Burlington’s firsts
Credit the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy for building the first modern-day dome car. The “Silver Dome,” built from a coach, debuted in 1945. Photo by Burlington Route […]
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad steam excursion led by ex-Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 No. 18 heads west in Monte Vista, Colo., on Aug. 2, 2008. William Diehl […]
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President Pacific at speed Baltimore & Ohio P-7 4-6-2 5310, named President Taylor when built in 1927, pinch-hits for the usual streamlined P-7 on the northbound Cincinnatian at Carlisle, Ohio, in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
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Stranger on the Central of Georgia The Tuscan red-painted stainless-steel Pennsylvania Railroad cars of the Chicago–Miami South Wind follow Central of Georgia 4-8-2 488 through Weems, Ala. (9 miles east of Birmingham) on April 4, 1948. The streamliner was detouring over the CofG because of flooding on its normal route. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
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Editor and 2-8-0 From behind the wheel of his car, Trains magazine Editor David P. Morgan watches Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-0 3127 on freight train 160 at a grade crossing near Genesee, Pa., in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]