Shay No. 4 of the Cass, Greenbrier, Cheat and Bald Knob Scenic Railroad backs between switchbacks on the railroad in transition from logging railroad to tourist line. Today this is the Cass Scenic Railroad, and it celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2013. Check out more Cass and West Virginia coverage in the August 2013 […]
With Cass Shay No. 4 lettered for the scrapper that was dismantling the railroad, a governor’s special visits the wye located at Camp One on Bald Knob on April 23, 1961. Check out more Cass and West Virginia coverage in the August 2013 issue of Trains magazine. Photo by John P. Killoran […]
VIA Rail Canada F40PH-2s Nos. 6410 & 6408 lead the eastbound Chaleur just west of St. Thérèse de Gaspé, Quebec, on June 28, 2008. Photo by Thomas Mik […]
Canadian Pacific train No. 493 meets opposing traffic at Reeseville, Wis., on June 14, 2014, as the last light disappears from the sky. Photo by Matt Krause […]
New England Central GP38-2 No. 3850 leads a southbound local on the Palmer Subdivision through Windsor, Vt., on May 10, 2013. Photo by William Gill […]
Norfolk Southern’s prized F-units parade through the community of Glade Spring, Va., and past the classic signals at Washington, while on a eastbound inspection trip to Roanoke from Chattanooga, Tenn., on June 11, 2013. Photo by Samuel Phillips […]
Norfolk Southern local train P31 (Asheville-Canton, N.C.) passes the rock quarry at Enka, N.C., on Feb. 21, 2013. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
Bound for Ashland, Wis., on Lake Superior, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha’s local train No. 508 departs Minneapolis on August 4, 1950. Drawn by 4-6-2 No. 500, the train’s consist suggests that its mission involved considerably more express and mail than passenger traffic. The “Omaha Road” was a Chicago & North Western subsidiary. […]
Union Pacific SD70M No. 4312 leads a train across Redding Trestle in Redding, Calif., in June 2008. Some of the local wildlife seems to be following the train’s lead. Photo by John Roskoski […]
Two of the few remaining Elgin, Joliet & Eastern-painted SD38-2s are switching the industrial plants east of Morris, Ill., on Dec. 30, 2012. Canadian National acquired the “J” in 2009. Photo by Jonathan Hill […]
VIA Rail train No. 72 passengers may not have noticed the dash of color in the trees on this early morning of Sept. 5, 2012, as they cross the Grand River in Paris, Ontario, high above the S-shaped Penman’s Dam that is one of the most photographed attractions, by locals and tourists alike. Photo by […]
CSX train Q324 blasts out of the driving snow at old FC tower in Defiance, Ohio, on Dec. 26, 2012. Photo by Brian M. Schmidt […]
