Friday, June 30, 2017

Boston & Maine Railroad Steam Locomotive #134

ID # 17,376
Built by the Mason Machine Works in 1887, builder # 744.

Thursday, June 29, 2017

A NEW ERA DAWNS IN TRANSPORATION


ID # 17,329
From the August 2, 1941 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

Around the World on a Ladder Track...

ID # 13,997
From the November, 1949 issue of Trains Magazine.

.."Soft Start" Switching

ID # 15,811
From the June, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

38,982 locomotives ago

ID # 14,558
From the January, 1974 issue of Trains Magazine.

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Men Who Build the Future of American Railroads

ID # 15,621
From the July, 1958 issue of Trains Magazine.

Big Mileage from Small Doses!

ID # 15,609
From the February, 1952 issue of Trains & Travel Magazine.

Picture of Finer Travel

ID # 11,959
From the May, 1950 issue of Trains Magazine.

The Century indispensable to business

ID # 8,529
From the January 5, 1922 issue of the Chicago Tribune.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad, Steam Locomotive #10 at Arkville, New York, in July, 1889

ID # 3,790
Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1882, builder # 3,060.

The Northern Pacific's Last Spike Excursion


ID # 1,002
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC'S LAST SPIKE EXCURSION

Not enough money and too many Indians slowed down the Northern Pacific s drive west from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. The national panic of 1873 had halted N. P. construction for five years, but under the presidency of Frederick Billings, for whom a Montana city is named, the railroad builders resumed their westward march. The N. P.'s next president, Henry Villard, pushed the line to completion despite trouble with the Sioux. The last spike was driven at Gold Creek, Montana, on September 8, 1883. Excursion trains such as this one took celebrities over the new line, stopping at Gold Creek for the ceremony. Among them were President Ulysses S. Grant, cabinet officials, Senators, Congressmen, governors of states, editors, and Army generals. This decorated engine, No. 154, bears the legend: "N. P. R. R. St. Paul, Minnesota, to Portland, Oregon." She was a woodburner (later converted to coal, renumbered 696), built by Baldwin in Philadelphia in 1883 and shipped via steamship all the way around Cape Horn to Sprague, Washington. She was scrapped in 1913.

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY

You're looking at the No.1 transportation of the world

ID # 15,834
From the August, 1939 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

Friday, June 16, 2017

"Shoeing" the Iron Horse

ID # 16,358
From the September, 1948 issue of Trains Magazine.

$2.00 SAVED to NEW YORK

ID # 8,528
From the January 5, 1922 issue of the Chicago Tribune.