Western Pacific EMD SW1500 No. 1503 is one of only three such units built in 1973 for the fan-favorite western railroad. Today, it resides at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, Calif., after being retired by successor Union Pacific. Vic Reyna photo […]
This Alco PA, the company’s 75,000th locomotive, made its well-publicized debut on Track 61 at Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The company would make 16-cylinder PA-1 locomotives for Santa Fe, Rio Grande, Erie, New York Central, Union Pacific, and others. Alco photo […]
The rear lounge section of Moon Glow, the dome-observation car of General Motors’ 1947 Train of Tomorrow, featured extra-wide curved windows, covered by drapes in this publicity photo. General Motors photo […]
An FP7 and F7B depart Toronto with Canadian Pacific Railway train 11, The Canadian, in 1964. The 13-car train will rendezvous at Sudbury, Ont., with a section from Montreal, then continue west to Vancouver, B.C. J. David Ingles photo, Brian M. Schmidt collection […]
A mid-1940s view from the Henry Hudson Parkway bridge near the north end of New York City shows the converging New York Central lines at Spuyten Duyvil. An electric multiple-unit train out of Grand Central pulls away from Spuyten Duyvil station to head up the main line along the Hudson River. The West Side freight […]
FT diesels on a westbound Santa Fe freight idle in front of Joliet (Ill.) Union Station, waiting for the Chief, visible in the distance, to clear the block ahead in Fall 1951. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Two interurban cars and a bus stand at the Sacramento Northern’s ramshackle shop complex in Oakland in 1940. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
On Dec. 9, 1961, Budd Company RDC1 demonstrator 2960 approaches a grade crossing in Glen Burnie, Md., during an 18-day experimental resumption of passenger service on former interurban Baltimore & Annapolis. Today, Glen Burnie is the end of a light-rail line from Baltimore. Ara Mesrobian photo […]
A rendering from a Milwaukee Road brochure for the 1947 Olympian Hiawatha shows a couple enjoying a double bedroom in one of the train’s Lake-series 10-6 sleepers. Milwaukee Road photo […]
New York Central 4-6-2 4754 pulls out of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station with train 305 for Toledo and Cleveland on June 5, 1948. Ford Motor Co. has announced plans to convert the towering MC depot into its new headquarters. Elmer Treolar photo […]
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, opened in 1954 as one of America’s last pre-Amtrak big-city passenger terminals, featured an open-air concourse at the end of its 12 stub-end tracks. James G. La Vake photo […]
A hostler at the Milwaukee Road’s engine terminal near 35th Street in Milwaukee uses a water crane to top off the tender of a steam locomotive. The Fairbanks-Morse diesel on the next track hints that steam is on borrowed time in this April 1951 photo. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
