A single E6 diesel leads Louisville & Nashville’s Cincinnati–New Orleans Humming Bird through Turner, Ky., in 1948. A rebuilt heavyweight sleeper trails the original six lightweight cars of the streamliner. L&N photo […]
E6 with L&N’s Humming Bird

A single E6 diesel leads Louisville & Nashville’s Cincinnati–New Orleans Humming Bird through Turner, Ky., in 1948. A rebuilt heavyweight sleeper trails the original six lightweight cars of the streamliner. L&N photo […]
Great Northern’s postwar streamliners between Seattle and Vancouver, the Internationals, carried 60-seat coaches with a pine-tree motif in their upholstery. GN photo […]
Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 1146 helps 2-8-8-2 Mallet 3406 hoist a 27-car freight up the 2-percent grade between Crags and Crescent, Colo., in July 1938. Both engines have tank cars behind them for extra water capacity. R. H. Kindig photo […]
Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No. 1647 makes 40 mph along the Kanawha River east of Handley, W.Va., with coal bound for the piers at Newport News, Va. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
This 1940s night view of Galesburg shows the lineup of carts for hauling mail and express. Galesburg was on the CB&Q’s Chicago-to-Denver line, with additional lines heading north to the Twin Cities, southwest to Kansas City and St. Louis, and south toward Centralia, Ill. Henry J. McCord photo […]
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Chesapeake & Ohio 4-4-2 No. 281, stands at the Monon’s Hammond, Ind., station, ready for the 8:45 a.m. departure on Oct. 5, 1946, of the C&O’s local train to Cincinnati. L.B. Herrin photo […]
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An old wooden caboose carries the Nickel Plate Road’s famous slogan advertising the road’s expedited freight service. Classic Trains coll. […]
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New York Central Alco FA diesels lead a freight near Jersey Shore, Pa., at the south end of Pine Creek Gorge – the “Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania” – in 1952. This photo was on the cover of the first issue of Classic Trains, back in early 2000. William P. Price photo […]
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