In Trains’ April special on short lines and regionals, author Scott A. Hartley brings us up to date on where Providence & Worcester Railroad is today. The now 516-mile system in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York has a rich history, which Hartley also wrote about it in the June 1994 issue. Click the […]
Canadian National design for 2-6-2 locomotives Library and Archives Canada Canadian National design for 2-8-2 locomotives Library and Archives Canada […]
Watch video clips of 2-8-0s, 4-6-0s, and light 4-6-2s from the Herron Rail Video program Donald J. Krofta’s Canadian Steam, Vol. 1: Ontario, 1958. […]
Baltimore & Ohio No. 9 is one of four class C-16 0-4-0T switchers built in 1912 to work tight-radius street trackage along Baltimore harbor. Two were rebuilt as tender engines in the 1920s, but the other two worked as-built until several years after World War II. Their compact size made them a favorite among HO […]
With the Chicago skyline in the background, Illinois Central’s Panama Limited pulls into Central Station to load passengers in a view from atop the terminal building. Illinois Central The Panama Limited was for many years the premier, first-class luxury train of the Illinois Central on its Chicago–New Orleans route. All-Pullman in consist, it left Chicago’s […]
If you’re looking for an article from a past issue of Classic Trains, check out the annual index for 2014-2015. Classic Trains’ 2014-2015 index […]
Rock Island class R-67 Northern 5114 has just passed Joliet (Ill.) Union Station and crossed the GM&O/ATSF diamond as it steams toward Chicago with an eastbound freight in fall 1951. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
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Characteristic of the indignities suffered by steam in its final years, Reading G-3 Pacific 215, built in 1948 as a top-flight passenger engine, loafs along with a single coach on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Mikados, an 0-8-0, and an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad Consolidation are arrayed around the turntable at Detroit, Toledo & Ironton’s Flat Rock Yard near Detroit on the day before Labor Day, 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
As a crossing watchman stands guard, Reading Camelback 4-6-0 No. 608 brings a Newtown, Pa.–Philadelphia local into Fox Chase station in 1948. Leslie R. Ross photo […]
A worker shovels salt into a reefer via a rolling chute at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy’s icing dock in Denver in 1949. The conveyor chain on the platform at right carries block ice along the platform. Earl Cochran photo […]
