Classic Trains Archives - Page 62 of 257

Western Maryland’s Baltimore Harbor stronghold

Western Maryland Railway on Baltimore Harbor

An aerial view from about 1940 shows the extensive dockside facilities the Western Maryland maintained at Port Covington on Baltimore Harbor. WM photo […]

Georgia Railroad: A good and unique ‘Family’ member

Blue-and-white Georgia Railroad diesel locomotives on passing freight trains

In its rich 150-year history, the Georgia Railroad was touched and torched by the rich and famous. During the process, the company morphed from a railroading pioneer and leader in the Peach State to an interesting combination of Class I and short-line operation. Started as The Georgia Railroad in 1833, the ambitious company hired […]

Tonopah & Tidewater’s lonely Pullman line

Begun in 1905, the Tonopah & Tidewater extended from the Santa Fe main line at Ludlow, Calif., 160 lonely miles north into Nevada. In the late 1920s T&T acquired a gas-electric car and began handling, in partnership with Union Pacific, a twice-weekly Pullman car that ran from Los Angeles to Death Valley, pictured here before […]

Frisco caboose ride remembered

Black-and-yellow diesel locomotive handling freight cars during Frisco caboose ride

A Frisco caboose ride provided a much needed railfan break during my military assignment near Kansas City. My spirits fell when I received orders for my first U.S. Air Force permanent-duty assignment, at the Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base just south of Kansas City, Mo. I had hardly been west of the Appalachian Mountains, and […]