Trains News Wire now lives under a new site section called TrainsPRO. To learn more, click here.
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 […]
An interior view at Tower 19 near Dallas (Texas) Union Terminal shows the track diagram (“model board”) of the territory controlled by the tower and some of the levers that controlled the switches and signals. This is an electro-pneumatic interlocking, in which switches are operated by compressed air. Historic American Engineering Record photo […]
In this PBS Tracks Ahead segment, watch a number of vintage steam-powered locomotives and machines come to life on this working railroad ranch. […]
New York Central E8 diesels idle at La Salle Street Station, Chicago, awaiting departure with two sections of the 20th Century Limited in November 1953. Robert W. Carper photo […]
The sight of an approaching Seaboard E7 signaled adventure: a boy’s first train ride. Wiley M. Bryan I don’t know how my fascination for trains began, but ever since I could remember, I had been drawn to their mystique. I like tracks, switches, sidings, and depots. I like everything associated with trains. So, in November […]
[…]
Welcome – The cradle of railroading Head End – A potpourri of railroad history, then and now Fast Mail – Letters from our readers Mileposts – Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe True Color – Rush hour at SPUD The Way It Was –Tales from railfans and railroaders Classics Today – British heritage railways Looking Back […]
Hundreds of historic railroad images. Subscribe today for unlimited access to all classic railroad photos. […]
[…]
[…]
[…]
Watch video clips of Niagaras, Hudsons, and Pacifics in the Hudson River Valley from the Sunday River Productions DVD Program Hudsons along the Hudson. […]
