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Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – The O. Winston Link Museum

Museum display with image of photographer

This PBS Tracks Ahead segment visits The O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Va., which maintains a collection of the nighttime railroad photographs captured by the late O. Winston Link. […]

Missouri-Kansas-Texas – Image Gallery

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Electro-Motive’s F Units

Watch excerpts from F Units in Action, a VHS program released by Kalmbach Publishing Co. in 2000. […]

History According to Hediger: Interlocking insights

Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader magazine’s senior editor Jim Hediger returns to the MRVP studio! In this episode, he first explains how a real plant works, before describing how former MR editors Paul Larson and Gordon Odegard engineered a model for use on an HO scale […]

Colorado steam photos from Stan Kistler

A distant shot of a train traveling through the mountains

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Seaboard Air Line at Melrose, N.C.

Watch 8mm home movies from 1945-46 of Seaboard Air Line steam and diesel action around Melrose, N.C. From the collection of James H. D. Helms Jr., whose father took the movies and whose grandfather was an SAL conductor. […]

Three major NYC yards

Selkirk Yard near Albany, N.Y. New York Central Cornerstone of New York Central’s $25 million “Castleton Cutoff” improvement project, Selkirk opened on November 20, 1924. Central’s objective was to bypass congestion at Albany, where two Hudson River drawbridges and the “Water Level Route’s” one big bump, the 1.75 percent West Albany grade between the Hudson […]

Jacksonville Terminal in the 1940s

Headhouse and platforms Jacksonville Terminal Co. Jacksonville Terminal was a monument to Florida’s status as the southern vacation destination of choice for the eastern half of the U.S. Few travelers got off here; instead, the city was the funnel for trains arriving over the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and Southern Railway on their […]

Montreal circa 1952

CP’s St. Luc Yard roundhouse Walter R. Allen for CPR Canadian Pacific in July 1950 opened its sprawling new St. Luc Yard in the “wilds” above the cities of Lachine and Cote St. Luc, Quebec. Built to relieve congestion at CPR’s Hochelaga and Outremont Yards in Montreal, St. Luc included this 37-stall roundhouse, completed in […]

On the waterfront

DL&W’s Hoboken Terminal Fred W. Schneider III Opened on February 25, 1907, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western’s Hoboken (N.J.) Terminal replaced an earlier facility on the site destroyed by fire in 1905. The new terminal featured 16 tracks and 6 ferry slips along the Hudson River across from New York City. Catenary came to the […]

Streamliners at Spencer event, 2014

Three streamlined, cab unit locomotives appear before crowds.

See this photo gallery of streamlined locomotives that dazzled crowds at the North Carolina Transportation Museum complex in Spencer, N.C., in Summer 2014. This is a modified version of the photo gallery that first appeared on Classic Trains‘ website. […]