In October 1950, Santa Fe’s Chief awaits the highball for Los Angeles at Chicago Dearborn Station as an RS1 of Chicago & Western Indiana, Dearborn’s owner, stands at right. Bob Borcherding photo […]
The Chief at Dearborn
Section: Photo of the Day
Rio Grande 4-8-2 on freight
Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 No. 1517 exhibits a clear stack as it brings a freight downgrade at Keeldar, Colo., between Tennessee Pass and Malta, on July 3, 1941. John W. Maxwell photo […]
Texas type in Vermont
Central Vermont 2-10-4 703 steams through a snowy landscape with northbound freight 429 on the grade south of Roxbury, Vt., in the 1950s. Paul A. Reynolds photo […]
Tennessee Central freight
An Alco FA-FB set leads a westbound freight out of a tunnel near Rockwood, Tenn., in the 1950s. R. D. Sharpless photo […]
Springfield, Mass., station
Amtrak’s station at Springfield, Mass., had six tracks in this early 1990s view. Regular trains to and from Boston and Washington, plus the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited, stopped at the station. The elevated structures are baggage elevators used for handling mail and express in pre-Amtrak days. Located on New York Central’s Boston […]
Sam Houston Zephyr at Fort Worth
Burlington Route E5 9909 arrives at Fort Worth with the Sam Houston Zephyr from Houston in the late 1940s. R. S. Plummer photo […]
Rock Island steam and diesel suburban trains
Rock Island 4-6-2 916 on an outbound suburban train meets RS3 488 with an inbound on the bridge above 89th Street at Gresham on the South Side of Chicago on May 26, 1952. John F. Humiston photo […]
Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 at Glenwood Springs
Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-8-2 3607 is westbound at Glenwood Springs, Colo., with a 51-car freight on April 21, 1940. R. H. Kindig photo […]
Remnant of the Danville Flyer
Louisville & Nashville No. 3, the Chicago–Danville, Ill., train formerly named the Danville Flyer, stops at Milford, Ill., in August 1970. The last passenger train on the former Chicago & Eastern Illinois, it will expire with the advent of Amtrak. William M. Scott photo […]
POTUS on Penn Central
A special Metroliner carries President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon out of Washington on the evening of Jan. 24, 1970. The President and First Lady were en route to Philadelphia for an orchestra concert. The Metroliners had entered service 12 months earlier, and Nixon wanted to ride one. Don Phillips photo […]
NP stock train being loaded
In 1936, this Northern Pacific stock train is loading at the cattle pens at Medora, N.Dak. When the drovers are done loading the car, the train will move additional cars into position. Library of Congress photo […]
Missabe passenger train
Plow-equipped Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 4-6-2 1110 waits to depart Virginia, Minn., with train 14 for Iron Junction and a connection with Hibbing–Duluth train 2 on Aug. 22, 1947. Harold Nyberg photo […]
