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Photos & Videos Photos Photo Galleries Harold K. Vollrath photos

Harold K. Vollrath photos

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2015

| Last updated on December 4, 2020

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View a gallery of photos by Harold K. Vollrath, profiled in the "Great Photographers" article in Fall 2011 Classic Trains magazine.

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A closeup shot of a diesel passenger train
Southern's first passenger diesel
Southern E3 No. 2801, built earlier in the year by Electro-Motive as the road’s first passenger diesel, rests at New Orleans on August 2, 1941, after bringing the Pelican—with Vollrath aboard—down from Bristol, Va.
Harold K. Vollrath 
A closeup shot of a diesel passenger train
A train passing beneath a bridge
Slogging up to Locust Summit
Reading 2-8-2 No. 1751 (Baldwin 1916) pounds uphill toward Locust Summit, Pa., on June 10, 1940. The pusher engine on the rear is not too far from the Mikado, an indication of the severity of the grade.
Harold K. Vollrath
A train passing beneath a bridge
A closeup of the front of a train
Close-up of a Reading Consolidation
Reading Company 2-8-0 No. 1064 handles a railfan excursion at Cold Spring, Pa., on May 18, 1941. This photo, taken from a gondola car coupled to the 2-8-0, was on the cover of December 1941 Trains magazine.
Harold K. Vollrath 
A closeup of the front of a train
A locomotive departing a train station
FM road-switcher on the Flying Crow
The Shreveport–New Orleans section of the Flying Crow departs Shreveport behind KCS (L&A) Fairbanks-Morse model H15-44 road-switcher No. 41 on July 11, 1949.
Harold K. Vollrath 
A locomotive departing a train station
A lady walking by a train parked in a train station
Southern Railway motor train
Southern Railway power-RPO-baggage unit No. 40, lettered for service on the Birmingham, Ala.–Meridian, Miss., Vulcan, stands at Birmingham’s Terminal Station on June 16, 1941. Southern acquired six such Fairbanks-Morse-powered, St. Louis Car-built motor cars in 1939.
Harold K. Vollrath
A lady walking by a train parked in a train station
A train parked on the tracks
Photographer's favorite
Vollrath’s favorite Ten-Wheeler of Kansas City Southern subsidiary Louisiana & Arkansas was 1915 Baldwin No. 396, pictured in a classic rods-down roster shot at Shreveport, La., on May 4, 1949.
Harold K. Vollrath 
A train parked on the tracks
A train pulling into a train station as a man watches
Orders for the Argonaut
SP (T&NO) 4-6-2 No. 621 (Brooks 1913) rolls a four-hour-late train 6, the Argonaut, into Franklin, La., in March 1942. Agent Wallace Stevens hands up orders.
Harold K. Vollrath 
A train pulling into a train station as a man watches
A train passing a water tower
Water stop at Albania, La.
Southern Pacific (Texas & New Orleans) 2-8-2 No. 764, a 1913 Baldwin, pulls up for water at Albania, La., in April 1942.
Harold K. Vollrath
A train passing a water tower
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