Southern Railway FP7 6141 and an F3 roar uphill into the hamlet of Saluda, N.C., top of famous 4.7-percent Saluda Grade, with the Charleston, S.C.–Cincinnati Carolina Special in the early 1950s. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
Cresting Saluda Grade
Tag: Photos
Load ‘em up
Early auto racks allowed easy loading and unloading of multiple cars with end ramps. Here AMC cars are being loaded near Kenosha, Wis., on the Chicago & North Western in 1966. Photo by Chicago & North Western, Keith Kohlmann collection […]
Legends in their fields
Trains magazine editor David P. Morgan pauses on a station platform at Joliet, Ill., to watch trains – in this case a Santa Fe streamliner behind EMD F7 diesels. Photo by Classic Trains collection […]
Intermountain interloper
Two of Rio Grande’s Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics spent almost three weeks testing on the New York Central in early 1963. Here crews on New York Central Advance BF-3 change at Bellefontaine, Ohio, on February 24, 1963. Photo by Si Herring […]
Hoseshoe helper
Conrail 6070, a former Erie Lackawanna SD45, assists a westbound freight up Pennsylvania’s Horseshoe Curve on July 25, 1981, just a few months after removal of one of the Curve’s four tracks. Photo by Robert S. McGonigal […]
Classic Toy Trains Photo of the Day: Thomas Kaiser’s O gauge layout
Only on a toy train layout, where the imaginations of modelers can soar to the greatest heights, will you see an SD80MAC road diesel (introduced in 1995) streaking around a triple-track main line bearing the Tuscan Red and gold stripes of the Pennsylvania RR. Why? Because O gauge enthusiasts, including Thomas Kaiser, have no problem […]
Half-tracks on tracks
Army half-tracks are loaded onto flatcars at an unidentified location during World War II. This image is from the 1943 Office of War Information film Troop Train, a 10-minute short depicting the movement of an armored division to the West Coast. Photo by Classic Trains collection […]
Great grains
Jumbo 100-ton covered hoppers revolutionized rail handling of grain in the 1960s. The Great Northern staged this publicity photo near terminal elevators in Minneapolis after receiving a new order of cars in 1967. Photo by Great Northern […]
Baltimore beauty
PCC car 7352 passes the imposing York Road car house in June 1960; this and six other Baltimore barns were designed by E. Francis Baldwin, architect of many notable Baltimore & Ohio Railroad buildings. Photo by Linn H. Westcott […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Essex Junction & Monadnock RR
A Maine Central 2-8-0 leads a two-car local on Don Virtue’s HO scale Essex Junction & Monadnock RR. The model railroad is loosely based on the B&M’s Cheshire Branch in New Hampshire. Lou Sassi took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and […]
AT&SF Atlantic
Built in 1910 by Baldwin, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 1485 is one of 23 similar locomotives that operated into the 1950s. The railroad had 171 such locomotives built by Baldwin, and one built by the railroad itself. Photo by Harry Hall […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Sutter’s Mill
While a few employees from Sutter’s Mill enjoy their mid-afternoon break outside, New York, New Haven & Hartford RS1 No. 0663 is hard at work pulling a string of boxcars. The scene is on Marshall Sommer’s HO scale Rhode Haven RR in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Lou Sassi took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the […]
