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2-6-6-2 Mallet No. 250 of the 3-foot-gauge Sumpter Valley Railway in northeast Oregon rolls a train of lumber toward the Union Pacific interchange at Baker, Ore., in 1946. The SV was abandoned in 1948, but a portion has been revived as a museum and tourist railway. Henry R. Griffiths photo […]
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 […]
This “Trackside with Trains” photo contest comes from August 2017. The theme was “Biggest Bridges”. Trackside with Trains was a regular, periodic contest among Trains website visitors from the earlier 2000s until October 2018. Anyone in the world who wanted to participate, could, and with rare exception, have their images judged by viewers with results […]
Union Pacific’s roving goodwill ambassador, 4-6-6-4 No. 3985, rolls through Cole Junction, Mo., while pulling the Missouri River Eagle special west of Jefferson City, Mo., on Oct 4, 2010. Peter N. Davis photo […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Eastbound West Point Route freight 208, with characteristically dirty black GPs, switches at Opelika, Ala., in June 1976. David Harris photo […]
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 […]
