Lightning-striped Fairbanks Morse C Liners hustle New York Central train No. 37 east at Millbury, Ohio, with the help of 4-6-4 No. 5273. The junction, 7.5 miles east of Toledo, joins parallel New York Central routes east to Cleveland. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Pennsylvania Railroad donated K4s No. 1361 to the city of Altoona, Pa., in 1957. The locomotive is undergoing a decades-long restoration to service. J.J. Young Jr. photo […]
The engine terminal at Canadian Pacific’s Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta, in the mid-1940s hosts 2-8-2 No. 5440, left, and 4-6-2 No. 2388. Floyd W. Yeats photo […]
Two Boston & Maine “Bluebird” Geeps rest at Springfield, Mass., in August 1964. The railroad, which operated 2,077 route-miles in 1929, became part of Guilford Transportation Industries in 1983, by then down to about 1,500 miles. Ralph W. Bostian photo […]
A Gulf, Mobile & Ohio-painted GP30 and GP35 roll an Illinois Central Gulf train south near Odell, Ill., on the main line connecting Chicago, Springfield, Ill.; and Kansas City, Mo., in July 1980. J. David Ingles photo […]
Baldwin-built DS-4-4-660 No. 662 shows off its original Chesapeake Western paint scheme in a 1946 builder’s portrait. It resides today at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. Baldwin Locomotive Works photo […]
Grand Trunk Western owned and operated a small yard and ferry slip in Milwaukee into the 1970s. Here, 1926 Brill boxcab No. 73 works ferry Grand Rapids at Milwaukee in December 1955. Russ Porter photo […]
Pennsylvania Railroad I1 class 2-10-0 No. 1753 pushes on the rear of a freight near Canoe Creek, Pa., near the famed Horseshoe Curve. The railroad had almost 600 such locomotives built in its own shops and by Baldwin Locomotive Works beginning in 1916. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Brill-built motor car M-2 of the Tennessee Railroad stands at Oneida, Tenn., where the little coal-hauler met the Southern’s CNO&TP line, in May 1952. Edward Theisinger photo […]
In late July 2019, the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. moved its leased former Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 steam locomotive No. 2716 from its home at the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven to its new home at Kentucky Steam’s headquarters in Ravenna. The goal is to restore the locomotive to operation there. Doing the honors […]
Rail profiles through time from file: TRN-TC0513 Illustration: Rick Johnson Q: Why and when did rails get their profile? — Rozier Smith A: The basic shape, or profile, of rails that we see today: chucky head, thin web, and wide base, has its roots railroading as early as 1789, according to an illustration Trains printed […]
Cincinnati Southern Railway website Q: The city of Cincinnati owns the CNO&TP line running from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, Tenn., which Norfolk Southern leases from the city. Does the city of Cincinnati also own and lease yards along the line to NS, or does NS own these yards outright? — Doug Lathrem, Bowling Green, Ky. A: […]
