At Albuquerque, N.Mex., Santa Fe No. 17, the Super Chief (at left behind E units) has caught up to a late-running train 19, the Chief, at 4:20 p.m. on a spring day in 1946. The Super left Chicago 7 hours after No. 19 and was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles 1 hour 15 minutes […]
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac E8 1001, posing for its builder’s photo in November 1949, was one of 15 E8As (and 5 E8Bs) owned by the railroad. RF&P’s dark blue and gray color scheme reflected its slogan: “Links North and South.” Electro-Motive photo […]
The Pennsylvania’s giant Broad Street Station in Center City Philadelphia suffered a major fire on June 11, 1923. Train service was quickly restored, but the 16-track trainshed had to be removed. PRR photo […]
Milwaukee Road class S3 Northern 267 rolls stock and refrigerator cars east at Bensenville, Ill., in the 1940s. The 4-8-4 is one of 10 built by Alco for MILW in 1944; sister 261 was restored for excursion service in 1993 and still runs out of Minneapolis. Classic Trains collection […]
Santa Fe’s Kansas City Chief, the top overnight train to its namesake city, awaits departure time at Chicago’s Dearborn Station in the mid-1960s. Jim Boyd photo […]
Passengers on Canadian National’s Scotian between Montreal and Halifax, Nova Scotia, enjoy the view from one of CN’s “Skyview” sleeper-observation cars in September 1967. Built by Pullman-Standard for the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha, the six “Skytop” cars, as MILW called them, were sold to CN after the Olympian Hi was discontinued. George G. Weiss photo […]
Just south of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Baltimore station in September 1954, GG1 4875 emerges from the B&P Tunnel with a Washington–New York mail and express train as three sister Gs wait to forward Northern Central passenger trains down to Washington. Beyond the waiting Gs, under the Baltimore & Ohio’s plate-girder bridge, Pennsy P5b 4702, the […]
High-mounted St. Louis-San Francisco 2-8-0 1262 heads into a siding with a freight at Neosho, Mo., in 1934. The tower in the background and split-rail derail in the foreground protect the Frisco’s crossing with a Kansas City Southern line. Harold K. Vollrath collection […]
Canadian National 2-8-2 3457 helps 4-8-4 6145 move a Hamilton–Toronto freight through the junction at Bayview, Ont., in May 1958. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Three Baltimore & Ohio F7s pass Bond Tower, about 10 miles west of Keyser, W.Va., on Seventeen Mile Grade, with empty coal hoppers in March 1951. Note the runaway track curving behind the tower. William P. Price photo […]
It’s June 15, 1938, the date on which the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Broadway Limited made its debut as a streamlined train. K4s 3768, given a streamlined cowling two years previously, handled the train out of Chicago. Classic Trains collection […]
Having just departed its Baltimore terminal adjacent to B&O’s Camden Street Station, a Baltimore & Annapolis car curves off B&O trackage and onto B&A’s line to Annapolis at Carroll Tower in 1946. William D. Middleton photo […]
