Santa Fe 4-8-2 3746 roars up the Surf Line between Oceanside and Carlsbad, Calif., with a troop train on July 18, 1944. Union Switch & Signal photo […]
World War II troop train on the Santa Fe
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Banana train on the IC
Illinois Central 4-8-2 2605 is northbound near Peotone, Ill., with a long train of reefers filled with bananas. IC did a brisk business hauling the popular Central American fruit from New Orleans to Chicago. IC photo […]
Transferring a transcontinental sleeper
Chicago & North Western 0-6-0 2624 passes the busy C&NW-MILW-PRR junction at Western Avenue, Chicago, with a Union Pacific sleeping car bound for North Western Station, where it will join a train for the West Coast. The Pullman had arrived at Grand Central Station or La Salle Street Station on a B&O or NYC train […]
Texas & Pacific F units
F7s of Missouri Pacific affiliate Texas & Pacific await assignment at Fort Worth in the early or mid-1950s. Linn Westcott photo […]
St. Paul’s depot switcher
Brand-new St. Paul Union Depot GE 44-tonner 441 is seen at the terminal in 1941. General Electric photo […]
Meet Hal Miller, Q&A with the Editors
See this interview with Hal Miller, Editor of Classic Toy Trains magazine. Trains.com Unlimited Members can see the video in the Trains.com Video section. Steve Sweeney: So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another Q&A with the Editors. I’m so pleased to have Classic Toy Trains Editor Hal Miller. How are you today? Hal Miller: I’m […]
Snowy meet on the East Broad Top
Loaded and empty East Broad Top coal trains meet at Kimmel, Pa., in March 1956, shortly before service ended on the beloved narrow-gauge line. John Krause photo […]
PRR in Baltimore
An April 1958 view in Baltimore shows PRR’s Union Junction tower, the Calvert Street bridge under construction, the city’s main post office (left), and, beyond the post office, Pennsylvania Station. Don Wood photo […]
Pacific on a Soo Line local
Soo Line 4-6-2 2718 is at Sussex, Wis., with Minneapolis–Chicago local train No. 2 in a view from the late 1940s or early ’50s. Classic Trains coll. […]
New Haven wire train
Orange-and-green Alco S1 No. 0971 leads a bright-red wire train down the New Haven Railroad’s main line at Pelham, N.Y., in the early 1950s. Bruce Owen Nett photo […]
N&W Y6 eastbound
One of Norfolk & Western’s powerful homebuilt Y6-class 2-8-8-2 Mallets drifts downgrade along the New River with eastbound freight at Narrows, Va., in mid-1954, when the N&W was still unsullied by diesels. W. A. Akin Jr. photo […]
Penn Central freight
A mix of EMD and GE diesels power a westbound Penn Central freight on the former Pennsy Pittsburgh–St. Louis line at Mingo Junction, Ohio. The condition of the right of way hints at PC’s health. Jay Potter photo […]
