GM’s 1947 Train of Tomorrow consisted of an E7 diesel and four cars, all of which had domes. This is the dome on chair car Star Dust. General Motors photo […]
Upstairs in the Train of Tomorrow
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Yampa Valley meet
December 31, 1966, on the Rio Grande finds the east- and westbound Yampa Valley trains meeting at Radium, Colo. Seen from the cab of Alco PA 6013 on westbound train 9, eastbound train 10 is headed by a PA and an F7B. Steve Patterson photo […]
Pinch-hitter on the Cincinnatian
Baltimore & Ohio’s Detroit-bound Cincinnatian, just pulling out of Deshler, Ohio, is missing its usual streamlined Pacific on this July 1956 day, but 4-6-2 5316 is a worthy substitute. Don Wood photo […]
Foggy day on the D&NE
Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 27 is at Cloquet, Minn., bound for Saginaw with empty log flats in August 1962. The 11-mile line was all-steam until 1964. A sister to this engine, D&NE 28, was recently reactivated by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Russ Porter photo […]
Joliet Union Station ticket counter
A man and woman stand at the center window of the ticket counter at Joliet (Ill.) Union Station in fall 1951. Note the stylized ALTON, SANTA FE, ROCK ISLAND lettering across the top, four years after the Alton was absorbed into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Flying Virginian freight train
Three of the Virginian Railway’s box-cab electrics fly high above the New River with an eastbound train at Glen Lyn, Va., in the 1950s. Richard J. Cook photo […]
Winston-Salem Southbound night meet
Time freights 209 and 212 of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad meet at Eller, N.C., in 1956. Reflective of the 95-mile WSS’s two owners, Mikado 827 (right) is a former Atlantic Coast Line engine with a Norfolk & Western tender. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Former BNSF employee convicted of murder in death of supervisor NEWSWIRE
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – A former BNSF Railway employee in Oregon has been convicted of murdering a supervisor in 2014, the Herald and News reports. James Forshee, 62, was convicted of murder last week in the April 2014 shooting death of Emery Connor, 42, at BNSF’s yard in Klamath Falls. After a week of testimony […]
IC’s Central Station, Chicago
Illinois Central opened its Central Station on Chicago’s lakefront in April 1893. This 1950s view shows the grand arched waiting room, which was marred in 1962 by the installation of a false ceiling. Demolition came in 1974. IC photo […]
Lehigh & Hudson River heavy 2-8-0
With cars from the New Haven Railroad interchange at Maybrook, N.Y., a Lehigh & Hudson River freight makes a smoky passage through Lake, N.Y., en route to Allentown, Pa. Up front is one of L&HR’s heavy 2-8-0s. Donald W. Furler photo […]
MoPac Mikado with a doghouse
The head-end brakeman of a Missouri Pacific freight train looks out from his “doghouse” on the tender of 2-8-2 No. 1571 at Little Rock, Ark. J. M. Gray photo […]
UP storage mail car
Union Pacific No. 5702 was assigned and lettered as a mail storage car. Built by ACF in 1949, it was a long (85-foot) streamlined lightweight car riding on six-wheel trucks. Union Pacific photo […]
