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The Union Pacific Railroad is the last major U.S. rail system whose name has never changed, dating from its charter in 1862 to build the nation’s first transcontinental, westward from Omaha, Neb.. Also notable for their longevity are the railroad’s shield-shaped emblem from 1886, and yellow color scheme on its passenger cars and locomotives from […]
It was December 2005 when I wrote the rough draft of my story on using GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) to help when chasing trains in unfamiliar lands. Between that time and the time the article appeared in the July 2006 issue of Trains, I kept an eye on the advertisements from national electronic retailers (Best […]
In his article “Nine Decades in the Service of Steam” in the Summer 2004 issue of Classic Trains magazine, James A. Brown looks at the final, glorious years of Stratford Big Shop, Canadian National’s last steam-locomotive overhaul facility. Below is a PDF that includes the layout of the Canadian National Stratford Shop. Please note that […]
Norfolk & Western Y6-Class 2-8-8-2 No. 2136 thunders east near Delbarton, W.Va., with a coal train on March 25, 1959. Bruce R. Meyer Bruce Meyer has been on a search for steam since he started taking railroad photographs in the early 1950s. Meyer made a dramatic record of steam’s final years in the Midwest and […]
Capturing the disappearing aspects of American life is photographer David Plowden’s stock in trade. He proudly relates that his first published photograph appeared in TRAINS magazine a year before he graduated from Yale with an economics degree. After photographing locomotives and other aspects of railroading in the early 1960s, he turned his camera to depots, […]
David W. Salter’s natural curiosity took him trackside throughout the South in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, photographing railroads in both color and black-and-white. Photography took a back seat when he was drafted into the Navy in 1950, and bounced to places as far-flung as Boston and Seattle, but Salter returned to his hobby after […]
Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Henry Griffiths, Jr., produced an extensive, high-quality photographic record of railroading in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. Griffiths began photographing in the 1930s. Among his successes was a 1952 photo essay commissioned by True magazine of Union Pacific’s operations west from Cheyenne, Wyo. After a career […]
It’s quiet at the depot in Raleigh, N.C., as a pair of FT diesels does some switching on an evening in October 1962. J. Parker Lamb Equally adept at both color and black-and-white, J. Parker Lamb has been taking photos since the fall of 1949 when he was in the eleventh grade. A native of […]
On a cold night in Sherbrooke, Que., in February 1957, the engineer of Canadian National 4-6-2 No. 5293 admires his steed. Jim Shaughnessy photo; TRAINS collection. By day and by night, in color and black-and-white, and on railroads big and small, Jim Shaughnessy has produced a vivid record of the railroad and its environment. Though […]
N&W K1 4-8-2 104 is serviced at Bristol, Va. O. Winston Link Master photographer O. Winston Link, who died on January 30, 2001, at age 86, attained wide acclaim for his striking night views of Norfolk & Western steam locomotives. Indeed, no other photographer achieved greater fame for his railroad work than Link did. But […]
Terry Friend and Minnie Tate pose with Norfolk & Western Train 42 in a spoof of a famous 1875 advertising poster. O.Winston Link N&W K1 4-8-2 104 is serviced at Bristol, Va. O. Winston Link Master photographer O. Winston Link attained critical acclaim in the fine-art world for his striking nighttime views of the last […]
Visitors gather in the main gallery of the new O. Winston Link Museum during its grand opening ceremony on January 10, 2004. Robert S. McGonigal In Roanoke, Va., an estimated 1000 people attended grand opening ceremonies for the O. Winston Link Museum on Saturday, January 10, 2004. The museum, located in the former Norfolk & […]
