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| ID # 24,978 |
Built by the American Locomotive Company.
Ex Green Mountain 401.
Ex Illinois Term 1056.Sunday, December 31, 2017
Septa Red Arrow Car Division
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| ID # 23,942 |
Brill-built Red Arrow car no. 81 in latest Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority colors westbound on Naylor's Run trestle, Media - Sharon Hill Line, in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, October 1973.
Photography by George Metz
M.&ST.L. Modern & STream Lined
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| ID # 22,805 |
From the January, 1954 issue of Trains & Travel Magazine.
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Here's what new General Motors power looks like on the Rock Island Lines
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| ID # 21,252 |
From the June, 1965 issue of Trains Magazine.
Friday, December 29, 2017
Lehigh Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive #5200 at Sayre, Pennsylvania in 1940
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| ID # 18,871 |
Built by the American Locomotive Company (Schenectady) in March, 1931, builder # 68,546.
Canadian National Railways Electric Locomotive
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| ID # 18,026 |
A pair of Canadian G.E. built box cab electric locomotives take the crossover to the left main at Val Royal, Quebec. July 22, 1970.
Photo by Jim Shaughnessy
Wrap up a billion dollar's worth"
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| ID # 15,883 |
From the July 31, 1937 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
RELIABILITY A progress report from Electro-Motive
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| ID # 15,339 |
From the October, 1974 issue of Trains Magazine.
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Johnny Careful... PERFECT SHIPPING BOSS on the M. & St. L.
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| ID # 12,597 |
From the May, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad #310 at Weehawken, New Jersey in April, 1939
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| ID # 11,887 |
Built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works in 1909.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Cohoes City Railway Trolley #4
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| ID # 9,083 |
The 9 bench car was numbered 34
3 - closed cars came to Albia & were renumbered 38-50-52
These open cars were built by Jones - in 1892
Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotives #46 at Shops
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| ID # 5,950 |
Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works (ALCO) in 1914.
NORTH SHORE 171
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| ID # 1,847 |
A four car Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee train with No. 171 in the lead races across the countryside at Knollwood, Ill. October 18, 1962.
Photo by Skipper Clark
Pennsylvania Steam Locomotive No. 5244
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| ID # 1,087 |
No. 5244, an 0 5-0 switcher, built in 1916 at the Pennsylvania Railroad's famous Juniata shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania, was the last of nearly 130 years of Pennsy steam engines to remain in service, in her old age she was leased to the Union Transportation Co., an 18.87-mile freight line serving the Fort Dix, New Jersey area. A framed enlargement of this photograph, showing her on a Union Transportation trestle, is hung outside the office of the PRR president in Philadelphia, together with her red-and-gold, keystone-shaped number plate, as a sentimental remembrance of the Steam Age. The Pennsylvania Railroad did more than any other system in the world to develop the steam locomotive. Even after the PRR itself had been completely dieselized, No. 5244 continued to pull trains; but the extreme difficulty of repairing steam locomotives in the Diesel Age made it necessary to scrap her in 1960.
PHOTO BY DAVID PLOWDEN, RAILROAD MAGAZINE
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Monday, December 25, 2017
East Broad Top
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| ID # 1,086 |
No. 15, a 2-8-2 type, was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1914 for a narrow gauge shortline, the East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Co., which dates hack to 1871. The company's narrow-gauge engines could not travel on standard gauge tracks, so Baldwin delivered them over the Pennsyhania Railroad on specially-built flatcars. No. 15 served continuously until the line was abandoned in 1956. She went back into service in 1960 when part of the line was revived as a tourist attraction. East Broad Top is one of the very few active narrow-gauge carriers in America today. Owning eight Baldwin steam engines, it operates steam-powered passenger trains regularly during the summer and early fall out of Rockhill Furnace (Orhisonia), Pennsylvania, where she is pictured here on a tourist run.
PHOTO BY JACK EMERICK
Sunday, December 24, 2017
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad #108 at Walton, New York in 1933
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| ID # 11,605 |
Built by the New York Locomotive Works in 1889.
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Jersey Central Camelback
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| ID # 1,085 |
This 41-2 (Atlantic) type engine, which Brooks Locomotive Co. built in 1901 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was one of several hundred "double-cabbers" that operated mostly in the East over a period of about seventy years, beginning in 1880. The middle cab resembled a camel's hump or Mother Hubbard's hood and was, therefore, called a Camelback or Mother Hubbard. In some Camelbacks the rear cab was so rudimentary that it was almost nonexistent. While this arrangement gave the engineer working on mid-boiler a better view of the track ahead, it lessened cooperation between him and his fireman shoveling coal in the tender behind. It was virtually impossible for the fireman to communicate with the engineer while the train was running, although the engineer could signal by bell or whistle; and in an emergency the fireman could stop the train by setting the air brake. Built for speed, Camelbacks pulled the fastest passenger trains on the Camden-Atlantic City run.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
Friday, December 22, 2017
The Powhatan...the N&W's First "Iron Horse"
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| ID # 28,893 |
From the December, 1956 issue of Trains Magazine.
