Baltimore & Ohio’s DR Tower, pictured before daybreak in 1952, guards the crossing of the road’s Chicago and Toledo divisions at the small town of Deshler in northwest Ohio. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
B&O tower at Deshler, Ohio
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Classic Trains, Summer 2023
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Amtrak’s year-old ‘Broadway Limited’
With just two cars still in Union Pacific yellow, Amtrak’s Broadway Limited departs Chicago for New York on May 21, 1972. J. David Ingles photo […]
Winter 2022
Welcome The next generation? Head End IRM hosts EMD centennial celebration Fast Mail Letters from readers on our Fall 2022 issue Mileposts Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe True Color Railroad divided The Way It Was Tales from railfans and railroaders Car Stop Variety in Toronto Bumping Post Toronto Union Station […]
Fall 2022
Welcome Three cheers for underdogs Head End A potpourri railroad history, then and now Fast Mail Letters from readers on our Summer 2022 issue True Color Over-under at ‘OKC’ Mileposts Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe The Way It Was Tales from railfans and railroaders Car Stop Chicago Surface Lines Bumping Post Seaboard at St. Petersburg […]
4-8-4 entering Moffat Tunnel
Rio Grande engine 1703, from the road’s first group of 4-8-4s, heads a westbound train out of Denver into the 6.2-mile darkness of Moffat Tunnel in August 1950. W. R. Berg Jr. photo […]
‘Olympian Hiawatha’ coach
Among the cars built for the Milwaukee Road’s 1947 Olympian Hiawatha were 52-seat coaches, produced in the road’s own shops. The interior paneling matched the exterior paint scheme, which was soon modified. MILW photo […]
NYC 2-6-6-2 in West Virginia
A long way from the broad, flat Water Level Route, New York Central 2-6-6-2 Mallet 1940 is seen in an undated photo on the road’s line to Charleston and other West Virginia points. Classic Trains collection […]
Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 on Tennessee Pass
There’s a dusting of snow on the ground as Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 No. 3613 approaches the Tennessee Pass tunnel with an eastbound freight in October 1946. R. H. Kindig photo […]
Pennsy race track specials in Maryland
E7s, E8s, and a pair of Baldwin switchers on trains from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington wait for horse-racing fans to finish their business at Bowie Race Track in December 1953. H. N. Proctor photo […]
New and old on the Atlantic & East Carolina
The newness of green-and-yellow F2 No. 401 contrasts with the antiquity of the wooden cars as the Atlantic & Eastern Carolina’s daily passenger train crosses the Trent River at New Bern, N.C., in 1946. The 96-mile A&EC had two F units, both F2s. A&EC photo […]
Mail exchange on the fly
A clerk tosses two mail delivery pouches out the door of his speeding Railway Post Office car while simultaneously keeping the catcher arm raised in preparation for snagging outbound mail. This is on the Boston & Maine in the late 1940s. Edward J. Howard Jr. photo […]
