Pennsylvania Railroad Steam Locomotive #5538 at Chicago, Illinois in 1946

ID # 9,630

Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1945.

"Skokie Swift"

ID # 1,802

"Skokie Swift"

Chicago Transit Authority articulated rapid transit car 54, at Dempster Street terminal. Built by St. Louis Car Co. in 1947, car was rebuilt for high-speed service in 1966.

California 4 a day

ID # 8,522

From the January 5, 1922 issue of the Chicago Tribune.

California via the Burlington

ID # 8,512

From the January 4, 1922 issue of the Chicago Tribune.

Vacation in the Pine Scented Lakelands of Canada

ID # 1,097

From the August 3, 1919 issue of Adventure Magazine.

Reading Railroad Steam Locomotive #606 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1940

ID # 10,322

Catskill Mountain Railroad Diesel Locomotive #2361 at Kingston, New York on August 22, 1987

ID # 2,451

A VACATION TO SUIT YOUR PLEASURE AND PURSE IN THE SCENIC WEST

ID # 12,278

From the April, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.

Look for the Trade Mark

ID # 12,073

From the April, 1950 issue of Trains Magazine.

Economy is a cheerful note in train travel

ID # 11,657

From the May, 1950 issue of Trains Magazine.

Union Pacific Railroad Steam Locomotive #X4012 on way to Steamtown U.S.A. (Bellows Falls, Vermont)

ID # 6,010

ID # 6,011

ID # 6,012

The "Big Boy"

ID # 1,109

THE "BIG BOY"

The world's longest and heaviest single-unit locomotives, the giant articulated 4-8-8-4 "Big Boys," were built for the Union Pacific Railroad by the American Locomotive Company. Each weighed 1,200,000 pounds in working order with her tender. This example, No. 40I9, was nearly 86 feet long 132 feet with tender. These power factories were designed to pull heavy fast freight Over the Wasatch Mountains without the use of helper engines. Because of their great length and power, they worked mostly in the mountainous area of the West, and used extra-long turntables. According to Union Pacific motive power experts they could make up to 80 miles per hour, but developed their top horsepower at 30 miles per hour. Nearly all of the Big Boys have been scrapped. One of them is on exhibition at the National Museum of Transport, St. Louis, Missouri.

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD

Trouble with the Indians

ID # 907

TROUBLE WITH THE INDIANS

As the Union Pacific Railroad builders pushed westward across the great plains in the middle and late 1860's, the Sioux, Cheyennes and other warlike tribes united to block the iron horse. The Indians made a desperate, futile effort to stop the white men's wholesale slaughter of buffalo herds which supplied their food, clothing and shelter. The Federal Government had solemnly pledged that So long as the Indians were peaceful, buffalo hunting would not be permitted south of the Arkansas River. But white men broke that treaty, railroad builders formed an alliance with the friendly Pawnees, and war was on. As shown in this painting, rails were torn up, ties destroy, trains wrecked, plundered and burned; and hundreds of men on both sides were killed. Blood sprinkled the route from Omaha, Nebraska, to Promontory Utah, where U. P. rails finally joined those of the eastward-advancing Central (now Southern) Pacific on May 10, 1869.

KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #1038 at Rochester, New York in August, 1919

ID # 2,185

Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works, April, 1890, builder # 3065.

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #1770 at Rochester, New York in 1919

ID # 2,137

Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in June, 1900, builder # 17776.

Southern Belle

ID # 12,589

From the May, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.

Every Day Is Moving Day

ID # 11,987

From the November, 1967 issue of Trains Magazine.

The New Southern Belle between KANSAS CITY and NEW ORLEANS

ID # 11,977

From the January, 1950 issue of Trains Magazine.

Lettuce hates to travel

ID # 14,957

From the December, 1966 issue of Trains Magazine.

Schenectady Locomotive Works Specification Card, Illinois Central Railroad #455

ID # 8,938

Schenectady Locomotive Works Specification Card, Clearfield Coal Co. "Jarvis"

ID # 8,936

United Traction Company #871 on March 15, 1940

ID # 509

Built by the Laconia Car Company in 1915.

United Traction Company Trolley #571 at the North Troy Barns

ID # 300

Built in 1912 by the Laconia Car Company.

The Era of Steam Was Illustrious GNERF Would Preserve This Tradition

ID # 14,946

Seashore Electric Railway, Annual Report, 1952

ID # 19,904

Buskirk, New York Covered Bridge Threatened by Flooding and Ice

ID # 9,402

Train crossing small bridge

ID # 9,378

Men on Abandoned Trolley Cab

ID # 9,375

Exchange Club Special

ID # 9,373

Train at crossing in winter

ID 9,372

Rutland Railway Steam Locomotive #93, August 26, 1957

ID # 9,145

Rutland Railway Steam Locomotive #82 near Walloomsac, New York in 1950

ID # 9,136

Steam Locomotive next to Water Tower

ID # 9,135

Rutland Railway Steam Locomotive #71

ID # 9,132

Rutland Railway Steam Locomotive #53

ID # 9,131