The conductor and flagman aboard a Seaboard Air Line caboose work on their paperwork as their train rolls through the night sometime in the early 1950s. Classic Trains coll. […]
Seaboard caboose crew
Section: Photo of the Day
Standard and narrow gauge in Maine
The two-foot-gauge Bridgton & Harrison (former Bridgton & Saco River) interchanged passengers and freight with the Maine Central in Bridgton Junction, Maine. Compared with a high-mounted MEC 2-8-0, diminutive B&H No. 5 could be confused with an amusement park engine. Dwight A. Smith Jr. photo […]
Train of Tomorrow Pullman compartment
Two models pose in a compartment in Dream Cloud, the sleeping car in the 1947 Train of Tomorrow demonstration streamliner, a joint project of General Motors and Pullman-Standard. GM photo […]
Little engine in a big land
This little 0-4-2T worked in building the Alaska Railroad, then went on to serve two logging operations along the line. Library of Congress photo […]
In profile
A pair of Iowa Pacific E units rolls west with an excursion train in tow on Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision near Muscoda, Wis., on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
GO, west
A former GO Transit locomotive that once plied freezing-cold rails near Toronto, Ontario, cozies next to palm trees in Riverside, Calif., in October 2013. Photo by Steve Sweeney […]
Color coordination
A loaded crude oil train with BNSF Railway power passes a line of matching orange trees on Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line near Otis, Ind., on Oct. 20, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Return to daylight
Norfolk Southern SD60 No. 6704 emerges westbound from Elkhorn Tunnel on the Pocahontas main line in West Virginia on Dec. 19, 2008. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
Salad shooter
CSX train Q091, operated for refrigerated logistics provider Railex, passes Deshler, Ohio, on June 14, 2014. The dedicated reefer train is known as the “salad shooter” to many local railfans. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Meal time
Union Pacific train LPA81’s power is seen at South Ninth Street in Sheboygan, Wis., on July 24, 2014. The crew has just delivered coal to the nearby Edgewater Generating Station and has parked the power here while they go for a meal. Photo by Rich Peters […]
Friendly competition
Canadian Pacific train No. 493 passes the competition at Wauwatosa, Wis., on June 14, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Out of town
Arizona & California’s train from Parker, Ariz., arrives in Cadiz, Calif., on June 19, 2013. The train will be interchanged with BNSF Railway there. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
