Wabash E8 1007 brings the Wabash Cannon Ball into Litchfield, Ill., near the beginning of its St. Louis–Detroit run in March 1956. John C. Illman photo […]
E8 on the Wabash Cannon Ball
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EMD E8 demonstrator and test car
Electro-Motive 952, completed in August 1949, was the first E8 built. After a stint as a demonstrator, it became Rock Island 643. Electro-Motive photo […]
Milwaukee Class A No. 2
Townsfolk of New Lisbon, Wis., inspect Milwaukee Road Class A No. 2 after the 4-4-2 clipped off 14 miles at a steady 112.5 mph on a Hiawatha pre-inaugural test run on May 15, 1935. MILW photo […]
C&NW class H on a local
Dirty Chicago & North Western class H-1 4-8-4 No. 3029 departs Chicago with train 13, a local for Omaha, on June 8, 1953. R. R. Malinoski photo […]
Ma & Pa caboose
Maryland & Pennsylvania four-wheel caboose 2003 — a little car with a big number — whiles away the day at the Ma & Pa’s Baltimore terminal in May 1955. William E. Warden Jr. photo […]
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On the old Buffalo & Susquehanna
Consolidation 3127 rambles along Baltimore & Ohio’s former Buffalo & Susquehanna near West Bingham, Pa., in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Tank engine with a tender
Even though it’s a tank locomotive (with the water tank around the boiler), Rayonier 2-6-6-2T No. 111 also sports a tender for additional water capacity. The fitting atop the stack is a Gerlinger spark arrestor. Whit Towers photo […]
West Side Heisler
West Side Lumber Co. two-truck Heisler No. 3 was one of about 600 geared locomotives produced by the Heisler Locomotive Works of Erie, Pa., between 1891 and 1941. Glenn W. Beier photo […]
Ma & Pa six-wheel switcher
Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 30 stands at the road’s ramshackle coal dock at Baltimore in March 1955. H. N. Proctor photo […]
Alco and Baldwins at Rutland, Vt.
Lots of switching occurs around the slow-speed trackage at the junction between the Green Mountain line to Bellows Falls (left) and the former Bennington branch in Rutland, Vt. Note the Delaware & Hudson Baldwin Sharknoses at right. Karl Zimmermann photo […]
