A New York Central RS3 has a healthy seven cars in tow as it heads down the west shore of the Hudson River toward Weehawken, N.J., on June 4, 1953. This view is from the Bear Mountain Bridge. E. Treloar photo […]
West Shore train at Bear Mountain
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Inside Trainfest 2024
America’s largest operating model railroad show returned to Milwaukee over the weekend. After a 2023 hiatus, Trainfest 2024 was held Nov. 23-24 at the Baird Center, located in the downtown area. The center itself was recently renovated and featured 300,000-contiguous sq. ft. of exhibit space, with highlights from the show that included the following: Dozens […]
View from Toledo Central Terminal
An elderly man looks out from the concourse of recently completed Toledo Central Union Terminal. New York Central built the terminal during 1947–50; C&O, B&O, and Wabash trains also called here. Classic Trains coll. […]
Illinois Terminal passenger trains remembered
Please enjoy this photo gallery of Illinois Terminal passenger trains, originally published online in April 2017. All through November 2024, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of “The Traction.” […]
Top of the PRR
The pushers of two eastbound freight trains pass AR Tower in Gallitzin, Pa., summit of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pittsburgh–Philadelphia main line in 1956. The track above the tower loops from the westbound main tracks. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Timeworn T1
Pennsylvania Railroad class T1 4-4-4-4 duplex 5536 shows the effects of hard service at Chicago in the late 1940s, but the engine is in fact less than five years old. Classic Trains coll. […]
Switching in New Orleans
One of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal’s SW8 switchers gets ready to add a Southern Pacific express boxcar to a passenger train in 1954, the year NOUPT opened. James G. La Vake photo […]
Soo local in northern Minnesota
Pacific 2702 clatters across the Northern Pacific tracks at McGregor, Minn., 81 miles west of Duluth, with Soo Line’s Thief River Falls–Duluth train 64 in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Small diesel in a small town
Minneapolis & St. Louis GE 44-tonner 149 stands beside the weathered depot at Roland, Iowa, (population 700) in September 1950. William F. Armstrong photo […]
Secondhand 2-8-2 in West Virginia
Mikado 482 was built by Alco’s Schenectady plant for the Mobile & Ohio in 1928. It went to West Virginia short line Cherry River Boom & Lumber after the GM&O merger. It’s resting at Jerryville, W.Va., southwest of Elkins, in May 1952. Ed Theisinger photo […]
Harz and soul in Germany
The prospect that German’s Harz Railway might end steam operations prompted me to dig out photos from a 2015 visit to the railroad as part of a Trains Magazine/Special Interest Tours trip, the thought being that readers might like to see a little more from this unique operation. Perhaps a few of you might even […]
It’s the end of the line: Locomotives in the scrapyard
Locomotives in the scrapyard Sitting switchers The switcher is a rapidly-dying species on American railroads. Pushed out of yard duties on the Class I railroads by demoted road units (like ex-BNSF No. 2224, at top), they soon became most noticeable on industrial sites, switching cars for grain elevators and warehouse complexes. However, the proliferation of […]
