The rakish front end of a Milwaukee Road F7 4-6-4 hints at the locomotive’s famous potential for speed. MILW photo […]
Profile in speed
Section: Photos
Publicizing NYC’s Pacemaker service
New York Central’s Pacemaker merchandise service debuted in 1946, with specially equipped and painted (vermillion and gray) boxcars. The railroad even painted five cabooses for the service, one of which trails this consist assembled for publicity photos. NYC photo […]
Big Alcos on the ACL
Brand-new Atlantic Coast Line Alco C628s 2001 and 2002 pose for a publicity photo with a string of ACL boxcars in December 1963. ACL photo […]
A Big Boy adventure photo gallery
“Been there. Done that.” In no way does this saying apply to standing trackside as Union Pacific No. 4014 — Big Boy — rumbles by. Every trip taken by the world’s largest operating steam locomotive is a new adventure. Here is a spectacle that doesn’t get old. It’s time for a Big Boy adventure. Although […]
Fairbanks-Morse road-switcher
Virginian Railway H16-44 No. 36 was one of 430 B-B road-switchers Fairbanks-Morse built between 1947 and its 1963 exit from the market. The coal-hauling road dieselized completely with FM B-B and C-C road-switchers, plus one GE 44-tonner. C. R. Huff photo […]
Ex-Wheeling 2-8-4 on the NKP in Cleveland
A former Wheeling & Lake Erie 2-8-4, identifiable as such by its inside-bearing pony truck, footboards in lieu of a pilot, and other details, soars above “The Flats” area of Cleveland with a Nickel Plate Road local freight in the 1950s. NKP acquired the Wheeling in 1949. Herbert H. Harwood photo […]
C&O 2-10-4 on the fly
Chesapeake & Ohio class T-1 2-10-4 No. 3006 makes 60 mph with a 5,000-ton merchandise train south of Linworth, Ohio, around 1940. Glenn Grabill Jr. photo […]
B&O E7 diesels on POTUS special
Baltimore & Ohio E7 diesels in A-B-A formation head a train carrying President Truman, on the campaign trail for re-election, at Gary, Ind., on Oct. 25, 1948. B&O photo […]
B&O dispatcher at Deshler Tower
Carl Donald works the CTC board in the tower at Deshler, Ohio, in 1952. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
10 more oddball diesels in North America
Oddball diesels in North America: Oddball diesel locomotives are the exception, not the rule. For the most part, North American railroads are interested in performance and reliability when it comes to motive power. And why not? A disabled locomotive at the point of a freight train going nowhere is not something – from the people […]
Allegheny helper
Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No. 1610, one of the road’s 60 giant Allegheny types, works as a pusher on a coal train. Classic Trains coll. […]
The first Dreyfuss Hudson
Among the most recognizable of all steam locomotive designs is the New York Central J-3a Hudson as styled by industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss for the 1938 20th Century Limited. Just-completed No. 5445, the first of the 10 streamlined 4-6-4s, stands outside the Alco plant at Schenectady, N.Y. Classic Trains coll. […]
