The conductor of Minneapolis & St. Louis’ Story City, Iowa, mixed train looks out from the old hack’s side door at McCallsburg, Iowa, in the 1940s. William F. Armstrong photo […]
Minneapolis & St. Louis side-door caboose
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The arm on a New York Central Railway Post Office car has just snatched the bag from the trackside crane. Incoming bags for such locations would simply be kicked out the door as the train passed. A. C. Kalmbach photo […]
Homefront supply line
Railroads were the primary means of moving men and materiel within the United States during World War II. Here a freight conductor walks beside flatcars loaded with M3 Lee tanks at an unknown location. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo […]
Photo of the Day
The Burlington Route created the first dome cars by modifying two coaches originally built by Budd in 1940. Silver Dome, pictured on display at Wichita Falls, Texas, was first, in 1945, followed by Silver Castle the next year. Wichita Times-Record News photo […]
Rock Island steam and stainless steel
In April 1948, a Rock Island 4-6-2 with an inbound commuter train approaches Englewood Union Station on Chicago’s South Side as the Peoria Rocket accelerates toward its namesake city. Bob Borcherding photo […]
Katy freight house in Houston
Freight terminals had extensive docks for trucks on the nonrail side of the structure. This is the Missouri-Kansas-Texas freight station in Houston, Texas, in the 1940s. LeRoy Wilkie photo […]
Classic Trains, Summer 2016
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Black NYC E7 diesels
New York Central 4003 and a sister E7A wear the road’s short-lived black road-diesel livery as they stand at La Salle Street Station, Chicago, ready to depart with the 20th Century Limited, August 1946. John E. Wenzel photo […]
Meet on the C&IM
Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-8-2 550 waits in the siding at Atterbury, Ill., with northbound way freight as the caboose of an empty coal train passes on the main in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Seaboard caboose crew
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. […]
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 […]
