Special note: All photos courtesy of Aileen Elizabeth Photography For many, garden railways are a unique hobby, but for Jack, a garden railway was a “special wish.” A Special Wish Foundation, North Central Ohio Chapter (“Special Wish”), is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to granting the wishes of children under the age of twenty-one who […]
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Watch video clips of Seaboard Coast Line passenger and freight trains in Florida from the Herron Rail Video program Classic Florida Rails, Volume 1. […]
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Watch video clips of B&O locomotives in action and being serviced from the Herron Rail Video program Steam and Diesel on the Baltimore & Ohio. […]
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The Nickel Plate carried a lot of meat traffic from Chicago and other cities. Here, Berkshire No. 776, with two Swift cars at the head end, rushes a long string of meat reefers east near Vermilion, Ohio, in 1957. H. S. Ludlow photo […]
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Three Pennsylvania Railroad self-propelled motor cars (“doodlebugs”) layover near Penn Station, Baltimore, in May 1955. The cars worked commuter runs on the old Northern Central to New Freedom, Pa. Classic Trains coll. […]
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Eastbound West Point Route freight 208, with characteristically dirty black GPs, switches at Opelika, Ala., in June 1976. David Harris photo […]
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In a view from the fireman’s seat on one Western Pacific train, FTs on another enter the siding at lonely Reynard, Nev., in October 1951. Norman Holmes photo […]
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A passenger train departs Waynesburg, Pa., in 1907 on the Waynesburg & Washington, a 28-mile-long, 3-foot-gauge pike that came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1885. Waynesburg University Museum collection […]
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