A massive Norfolk & Western class A 2-6-6-4 dwarfs workers in the road’s yard at Roanoke, Va., in 1954. W. A. Akin Jr. photo […]
Class A power
Section: Photos
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Wooden trestles on the Monida & Yellowstone
Spectacular wooden trestles are numerous on the Monida & Yellowstone. George Hall caught an M&Y two-truck Shay bringing a short train over the trestle near South Fork on Claude and Cindy Leglise’s 1:22.5-proportion garden railroad. The freelanced railroad was featured in the June 2004 issue of Model Railroader. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features […]
Boston PCC train
In Boston, a two-car train of Metropolitan Transportation Authority PCC cars rounds the loop at Riverside in 1963. G. Mac Sebree photo […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Boeing Employees’ Model Railroad Club layout
Seattle & North Coast GP7 no. 717, still in the colors of its previous owner, leads a string of recently painted ore cars past the mine at Marmot. The scene is on the Boeing Employees’ Model Railroad Club HO scale layout in Kent, Wash. Timothy Repp of Renton, Wash., took the photo. Introducing Model Railroader‘s […]
Big engine with a little number on a little road
Lehigh & Hudson River 4-8-2 No. 11 was one of three such engines built by Baldwin in 1944 for the 90-mile road. Because of wartime restrictions, they were duplicates of a batch of Boston & Maine engines delivered in 1941. Classic Trains coll. […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: the diesel shop at Cajon Pass
An assortment of Electro-Motive Division and Alco locomotives waits between assignments at the diesel shop in Barstow, Calif. It appears that a few Santa Fe employees are interested in taking a closer look at the EMD SD45 demonstrator in the foreground. Bill Pearce of Wichita, Kan., photographed the scene on his N scale Cajon Pass […]
Berkshire blast-off
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 750 gets under way at Bellevue, Ohio, with a westbound freight in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
B&O troop train confab
The commander of a May 1953 U.S. Army troop train out of Fort Meade, Md., confers with a Baltimore & Ohio passenger representative, the train conductor, and the Pullman conductor. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Universal leader
The U30C was the most popular of General Electric’s “Universal” locomotive series, selling 592 units built beginning in 1967. Buyers included Burlington Northern, Louisville & Nashville (pictured), Milwaukee Road, Pennsylvania, Reading, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and others. This unit has lost its L&N markings in the transition to a Seaboard System identity. Jim Hediger photo […]
Treacherous tracks
A Denver & Salt Lake passenger train pauses at Arrow, Colo., on the original Rollins Pass line in 1905. At left is the main line west to Middle Park, which has a 4-percent grade. Today, Union Pacific freights and Amtrak’s California Zephyr bypass this treacherous trackage with Moffat Tunnel, completed in 1928. L. C. McClure photo […]
Timeless Tennessee Pass
Running behind three Rio Grande GP40s and a GP30, this eastbound was working up the west side of Tennessee Pass near Red Cliff, Colo., on April 30, 1967. Out of sight are two F7 helpers on the rear. In the late 20th century Tennessee Pass had eight or more heavy trains climbing its 13 miles […]
Take a ride on the Reading
A Reading Company train works at Allentown, Pa., on Jan. 24, 1972, with power from three builders: GE U30C, Alco C424, EMD GP35, and Alco C630. The “Bee Line Service” logo on the lead and last units graced 15 six-axle units built in 1966-1967. Bob Wilt, J. David Ingles collection […]
