Page 179 – Trains

Also in this issue Great Trains in Photos: MISSOURI RIVER EAGLE, pg. 2 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, pg. 7 TEXAS SPECIAL, pg. 18 MEADOWLARK and WHIPPOORWILL, pg. 28 TIPPECANOE, pg. 38 CINCINNATIAN, pg. 46 LAKER, pg. 58 MAPLE LEAF, pg. 68 DETROIT ARROW, pg. 82 BANNER BLUE and BLUE BIRD, pg. 100 ILLINOIS TERMINAL’S TRAINS, pg. […]

Chariots of fire on the Erie

A hot-metal “bottle car,” one of three in an Erie train that included eight hopper cars as spacers, passes DeForest Junction, between Youngstown and Warren, Ohio, in 1966. Clifford A. Redanz One of the more interesting aspects of steel-mill railroading were the “hot-metal runs” that moved molten iron from the blast furnaces to the open […]

Springfield (Illinois) Terminal map

1920s-era map of the Springfield Terminal Railway, a coal-hauling short line northeast of Springfield, Ill., covered in Spring 2017 Classic Trains. […]

Baltimore & Ohio steam in Ohio

Watch video clips of B&O locomotives in action and being serviced from the Herron Rail Video program Steam and Diesel on the Baltimore & Ohio. […]

Close encounters of the 4-6-4 kind

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo’s two ex-NYC J-1e’s were among the Hudsons that captivated a Buffalo boy in the late 1940s. Frank Clodfelter While growing up in Cleveland and Buffalo after World War II, a close encounter with a Hudson-type locomotive was just a train ride away. My first memory was as a four-year-old. My family […]

Long Island Rail Road – Image Gallery

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Whose cab ride is this?

Erie RS2 904 clatters into the Lackawanna’s Hoboken Terminal with a Main Line local in 1956. Richard H. Young Youth is wasted on young people, so the saying goes. Kids don’t have the … well … maturity to know what’s special in their world. Watch the crowds at Disneyland. It’s the adults who are agog […]