Operational organization of Mexican railroads from 1960 to 1987 Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (NdeM) División de Cárdenas División del Centro, Subdivisión de Aguascalientes División del Centro, Subdivisión de Durango División del Golfo División de Guadalajara División de Jalapa División de Mérida (ex-FC Unidos del Sureste) División de Mexicano (ex-FC Mexicano) División de México, Subdivisión de […]
Magazine: Classic Trains
Norfolk Southern merger family tree
Norfolk Southern Corp. was created as a new holding company to acquire Norfolk & Western Railway and Southern Railway, effected June 1, 1982. Full merger went into effect on Dec. 31, 1990, as the N&W became a subsidiary of the Southern, and the latter changed its name to Norfolk Southern Railway. Here, from both the […]
Pan Am Railways merger family tree
Pan Am Railways In March of 2006, Guilford Transportation Industries’ rail properties were rebranded under the name Pan Am Railways, sharing the trade name of the well-known airline, which GTI had purchased out of bankruptcy in 1998 and continues to operate under the Pan Am brand. Guilford Rail System Guilford Transportation Industries dates from 1977, […]
Union Pacific merger family tree
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 […]
GPS helps you find the trains
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 […]
Diagram of CN’s Stratford, Ontario, steam shop
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 […]
Bruce Meyer
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 […]
David Plowden
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
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 […]
Henry R. Griffiths, Jr.
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 […]
J. Parker Lamb
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 […]
Jim Shaughnessy
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 […]
