Even though it’s a tank locomotive (with the water tank around the boiler), Rayonier 2-6-6-2T No. 111 also sports a tender for additional water capacity. The fitting atop the stack is a Gerlinger spark arrestor. Whit Towers photo […]
West Side Lumber Co. two-truck Heisler No. 3 was one of about 600 geared locomotives produced by the Heisler Locomotive Works of Erie, Pa., between 1891 and 1941. Glenn W. Beier photo […]
This PBS Tracks Ahead segment visits The O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Va., which maintains a collection of the nighttime railroad photographs captured by the late O. Winston Link. […]
Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 30 stands at the road’s ramshackle coal dock at Baltimore in March 1955. H. N. Proctor photo […]
Lots of switching occurs around the slow-speed trackage at the junction between the Green Mountain line to Bellows Falls (left) and the former Bennington branch in Rutland, Vt. Note the Delaware & Hudson Baldwin Sharknoses at right. Karl Zimmermann photo […]
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Three NP F units lead a 12-car train 2, the Mainstreeter, through Plains, Mont., in summer 1964. The depot’s train-order signal projects above the third unit, while a mail pouch is ready to be snagged by No. 2’s RPO. Bruce Butler In the summer of 1964 I had just about the best summer job that […]
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A Santa Fe RSD15, SD24, and two SD45s curve toward Summit with an eastbound freight on November 14, 1970. Jay Potter People used to say that railroads held the country together. They were the proverbial ribbons of steel that kept commerce and people moving and made a lot of things possible. Today — as I […]
Two Western Maryland F3s haul a 2-10-0 and its train on the outskirts of Baltimore. The diesels were on the train for just a short distance to keep the Decapod from running afoul of municipal anti-smoke laws. Francis Riffle photo […]
New Haven FL9 2019, owned by Railroad Museum of New England, during North Carolina Transportation Museum’s Streamliners at Spencer event in June 2014. Robert S. McGonigal View a list of the 22 survivors of the New Haven’s original fleet of 60 FL9 locomotives […]
Soo Line FP7 2500, owned by Lake Superior Railroad Museum, and Southern Railway FP7 6133, owned by North Carolina Transportation Museum, during NCTM’s Streamliners at Spencer event in June 2014. Robert S. McGonigal VIEW FP7 Survivors List […]
