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Minneapolis & St. Louis – Image Gallery
Special trains photo gallery
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Boarding the cars at Guthrie
Louisville & Nashville E8 No. 787 leads the head-end cars and lone coach of Evansville–St. Louis train 10 out of East St. Louis in May 1968. R. R. Wallin, George W. Hamlin coll. “No, that train doesn’t stop here. You’ll have to go up to ‘Hoptown’ to get it,” was the less-than-helpful information from the […]
Central Vermont – Image Gallery
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Goldwater Special consist, Decatur, Ill., Oct. 2, 1964
IC 4035, E9A IC 4105, E8B IC 4017, E7A B&O 1239, baggage-lounge B&O Loch Lomond, 10 SEC – 1 DR – 2 CPT sleeper B&O Tuscawaras, 10 RMT – 6 BR sleeper UP Imperial Palm, 4 BR – 4 CPT – 2 DR sleeper UP Imperial Letter, 4 BR – 4 CPT – 2 DR […]
Train watching in the 1960s
What would it have been like to spend one day at a perfect train-watching spot in the 1950s and 1960s? This 30-page download takes you back in time, with contributors sharing their experiences from memorable trips across the United States. This free guide provides plenty of pictures, too, with classic railroad photos from a bygone […]
Growing up along the Burlington
An E unit leads a train through Berwyn, Ill., on a lazy day in August 1963. Such scenes were part of daily life along the Burlington’s triple-track main west of Chicago. Larry Kostka It didn’t matter how often you rode the trains, or even if you did at all. Growing up in the postwar era […]
Electric Railroads
The electrification of U.S. railroads has long been a vision for the future that’s never reached its full potential. From 18th century technology development, to early 20th century progress on major electric traction projects, the United States was a world leader in railroad electrification. But electrification expansion projects were halted during World War II and, […]
W. A. Eby, PRR engineman and foster dad
Like many old steam men, PRR engineman W. A. Eby disliked diesels, but he manages a smile in the cab of S12 No. 8734 working the Bellefonte local in 1957. Michael Hauk collection I never knew Walter A. Eby, my dad’s foster father. He passed away in 1963, when I was two years old. I […]
Classic Trains, Spring 2017
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Great Trains Heartland
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 […]
