Vol. 311 “Biggest Bridges”

Long steel bridge in a prairie landscape.

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 […]

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NKP Berkshire making time

20161228

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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PRR doodlebugs

20161209

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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Pennsylvania narrow gauge

20161223

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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Pennsylvania Railroad Geeps on the Mountain

20161214

A set of Pennsylvania Railroad GP9s climbs the east slope of Allegheny Mountain with piggyback train TT1 in September 1956. Trains magazine Editor David P. Morgan, researching a story on PRR’s Altoona–Pittsburgh operations, rides the cab of the second unit. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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