Sunday, April 30, 2017

Pennsylvania Railroad Steam Locomotive #5406


ID # 13,437
PENNSYLVANIA 5406

Class K-4 Pacific awaits arrival of GG-1 powered train from New York City at South Amboy, N. J. At this point New York and Long Branch R.R. trains chnage engines and continue to the northern New Jersey shore. April 1956

Photo by Don Wood

Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotives line up at Sunnyside Enginehouse in New York


ID # 13,436
PENNSYLVANIA RR

Remember when the line up of power opposite the Sunnyside enginehouse in New York looked like this? This classic scene of four pin stripped GG1 electric locomotives occurred in June 1954.

Photo: Edward L. Conklin III Collection

Reading Railroad Steam Locomotive #2124 at Reading Shops at Reading, Pennsylvania on June 16, 1960


ID # 13,435
READING 2124

110 feet 3 1/2 inches of steam locomotive. First of the Reading class T-1's to power the famous "Reading Iron Horse Rambles" is shown on June 16, 1960 at the Reading shops in Reading, Pa.

Photo by Don Wood

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Steam Locomotive #151

ID # 44,448
Built by the Dickson Manufacturing Company in 1890.

Lehigh Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive #796 at Sayre, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1937

ID # 6,162
Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1902, builder # 20565.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Canadian Pacific Railroad Steam Locomotives #2859

ID # 5,594
Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1938, builder # 69109.

Know-How and Can-Do...

ID # 12,698
From the June, 1963 issue of Trains magazine.

The flame with the 14-mile reach

ID # 12,075
From the April, 1950 issue of Trains Magazine

Monday, April 24, 2017

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad #319 at Middletown, New York in June, 1947

ID # 11,945
Built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works in 1911.

America's most powerful single-engine locomotive

ID # 12,588
From the November, 1963 issue of Trains Magazine.

Right on the nose

ID # 11,995
From the February, 1950 issue of Trains Magazine

What happens to the old warehouse?

ID # 11,926
From the August, 1954 issue of Trains Magazine.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Manhattan Magic!

ID # 12,596
From the May, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.

Heart to Heart

ID # 12,376
From the February, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #1709

ID # 2,134
Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1899.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad #174 at Walton, New York in 1927

ID # 11,871
Built by the Dickson Manufacturing Company in 1892, builder # 881.

From Head Start... to Happy Ending

ID # 12,023
From the March, 1950 issue of Trains Magazine.

The new New England States

ID # 12,328
From the July, 1949 issue of Trains Magazine.

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotives #5056

ID # 5,951
Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1913.

Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #949

ID # 5,879
Built by the Dickson Manufacturing Company in 1903, builder # 27524.