A man and girl walk past the Blue Bird’s dome-observation car as they board the Wabash’s streamliner to St. Louis at Dearborn Station, Chicago, in the 1950s. Bill Wight photo […]
Boarding Wabash’s Blue Bird
Type of Train: Passenger/Transit
E5 with new bi-levels
An E5 heads up one of the first Burlington Route commuter train to sport the new bi-level “gallery” cars delivered by Budd in 1950. The train is eastbound at famous Naperville curve on the triple-track west of Chicago. Bob Borcherding photo […]
First Brightline train on FEC rails NEWSWIRE
A special Brightline train is set to complete its more than 3,000-mile journey from California to south Florida this week. The train was on Florida East Coast rails for the first time today in Jacksonville, Fla., with FEC milepost 0 immediately behind the train. Eric Hendrickson JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The first new trainset for a […]
Inside the Train of Tomorrow
Models pose for the camera inside Moon Glow, the Train of Tomorrow’s dome-observation-lounge car. GM and Pullman-Standard built the four-car, E7-powered ToT in 1947. General Motors photo […]
Book Review: The Metroliners: Trains that changed the course of American rail travel
The Metroliners: Trains that changed the course of American rail travel By Bruce Goldberg and David C. Warner White River Productions, P.O. Box 48, Bucklin, MO 64631; 124 pages, hardcover, 8 ½ x 11 inches; $59.95 shop.whiteriverproductions.com Recounting the history of the Northeast Corridor’s first premium service in a breezy narrative that knows what to […]
Southern Pacific RDC to return to California home for the holidays (and stay) NEWSWIRE
Former Southern Pacific Budd rail diesel car SP-10 on a flat car in Texas on Nov. 17. RDC SP-10 Facebook page GALVESTON, Texas —Somewhere in the West this Thanksgiving, there is a Southern Pacific Budd rail diesel car on its way home. RDC SP-10 began the long journey from the Galveston Railroad Museum back to […]
Union Pacific – Image Gallery
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Bachmann N scale passenger cars
The new Bachmann N scale streamlined passenger cars include (from bottom, clockwise): a baggage car, observation car, and coach. The N scale streamlined observation car features a rounded end. All the cars feature one-piece detailed interiors (coach shown). The coach and observation car have overhead LED lighting. If it’s time to streamline the passenger service […]
North Shore at North Chicago Junction
A northbound Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee train leaves the interurban’s Shore Line route and joins the Skokie Valley route at North Chicago Junction, Ill., on July 18, 1955 — one week before cessation of passenger service on the Shore Line. Overhead is the Chicago & North Western’s Chicago–Waukegan–Milwaukee line. William D. Middleton photo […]
‘Phoebe Snow’ crossing the Delaware
Two E8 diesels lead the Phoebe Snow, the maroon, gray, and yellow pride of the Lackawanna Railroad, westbound across the Delaware River at Slateford Junction, Pa., in the 1950s. S. K. Bolton photo […]
Amtrak equipment usage
Amtrak’s ‘Empire Builder’s consist will vary, but the number of trainsets for a route depends on schedules. Here it is westbound in June at Duplainville, Wis. Steve Sweeney Q For the past few years I have been trying to figure out how many trainsets are needed for a given train such as the Empire Builder. […]
Pittsburgh PCCs
In the 1950s, two Pittsburgh Railways PCC streetcars have left downtown, crossed the Monongahela River on the Smithfield Bridge, passed the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie depot, and are heading up into the South Hills tunnel. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
