A Southern Pacific PA-PB-PA set leads the westbound City of San Francisco at Davis, Calif., in June 1951. D. W. Johnson photo […]
City of San Francisco at Davis
B&O midget electric
Baltimore & Ohio box-cab electric No. 10 shifts cars on the constricted trackage near the Baltimore waterfront in September 1949. In 1954, after B&O shut down its trolley system, the little fellow retired to the B&O Railroad Museum. H. N. Proctor photo […]
Remembering Norfolk & Western Railway locomotives
Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history, heritage, and style of the Norfolk & Western Railway all through January 2022. So, please enjoy this photo gallery of Norfolk & Western locomotives selected from the archives of Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library. Norfolk & Western locomotives served in the coal fields and later on high-speed freight […]
Train time at Wilmington, N.C.
Several baggage carts stand ready to receive mail and express as an Atlantic Coast Line train backs into the Wilmington, N.C., station in 1957. William D. Middleton photo […]
Narrow gauge in paradise
Consolidation No. 22 of the Oahu Railway & Land Co. has a freight train from Honolulu in tow as it skirts the Pacific Ocean en route to Kahuku on the island’s northern tip. The picturesque OR&L was largely abandoned shortly after World War II. Kent W. Cochrane photo […]
N&W Pacific on a local train
Norfolk & Western 4-6-2 No. 578 crosses Bull Run with Bluefield–Norton, Va., train 5 on May 27, 1952. The Pacific now resides at the Ohio Railway Museum. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Santa Fe’s new and old bridges
During 1942–44, the Santa Fe replaced its 1890 through-truss bridge over the Colorado River with a higher-level deck-truss span. Sets of FT diesels pose with west- and eastbound freights during the short time that both bridges were in service. Santa Fe photo […]
Cincinnati Union Terminal 0-6-0
By September 1954, Cincinnati Union Terminal’s original 0-6-0 switchers were stored, supplanted by Lima and EMD diesels. Here CUT No. 10 awaits a call to duty that will never come. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Western Maryland’s Baltimore marine terminal
Three Liberty ships, including the Cardinal Gibbons (closest to camera), are loaded at the Western Maryland’s Port Covington piers in Baltimore during World War II. WM photo […]
Pacific Electric “Blimps”
Three of Pacific Electric’s big interurban cars, known as “Blimps” for their great size, lay over at Long Beach circa 1950. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
Action at Aurora
At the Burlington Route’s station in Aurora, Ill., on a February 1946 day, Pacific 2850 pulls away from a string of suburban cars as two trains stand on other tracks. In the middle is a 22-car empty troop train waiting for a locomotive to take it west, while at left is the eastbound North Coast […]
Wabash’s Banner Blue
Hudson type 706 leads the Wabash’s Chicago–St. Louis Banner Blue through Chicago Ridge, Ill., in August 1948. The train retained its heavyweight equipment – including open-platform observation car – until 1960. Bob Borcherding photo […]
