Heavy-Duty Highway

ID # 25,855

From the December, 1949 issue of Trains Magazine.

The Missouri Pacific constantly adding new equipment in order to assure shippers of the finest and f

ID # 25,852

From the December, 1949 issue of Trains Magazine.

For FAST DEPENDABLE SERVICE

ID # 25,851

From the December, 1949 issue of Trains Magazine.

Sierra Railroad Steam Locomotive #3 in May, 1948

ID # 25,465

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1891.

Amtrak Diesel Locomotive #347 at Rensselaer, New York on June 14, 1981

ID # 39,385

Conrail Diesel Locomotive #6740 at Kingston, New York in November, 1990

ID # 41,503

Sierra Railroad Steam Locomotive #3 in May, 1948

ID # 25,483

Built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1891.

East Broad Top Railroad Steam Locomotive #11

ID # 25,711

Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1908, builder # 32,664.

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Diesel Locomotive #603 at Middletown, New York in 1948

ID # 21,272

See all the West From A UNION PACIFIC DOMELINER

ID # 21,247

From the June, 1965 issue of Trains Magazine.

Savannah & Atlanta Railroad #448 at Savannah, Georgia in September, 1947

ID # 21,123

Ex New York, Ontario & Western Railroad # 404.

New York, Ontario & Western Rail yard at Walton, New York

ID # 21,162

Copied from very old postcard
N.Y.O.&W. yard at Walton, N.Y.
Train at left headed toward Delhi branch.

Diamond Special 10:30 p.m.

ID # 19,773

From the February 11, 1922 issue of the Chicago Tribune.

60 miles an hour with the motor off!

ID # 19,751

From the February, 1965 issue of Trains Magazine.

Ol' man Winter doesn't bother Rio Grande

ID # 19,161

From the January, 1948 issue of Trains Magazine.

We're going to greater lengths than ever to help you ship farther on the Fast Track

ID # 19,157

From the November, 1970 issue of Trains Magazine.

Conrail Diesel Locomotive #9580 at Kingston, New York on March 9, 1991

ID # 40,661

Ex Penn Central # 9580. EMD SW1500.

Conrail Diesel Locomotive #1946 at Kingston, New York on April 6, 1984

ID # 40,733

Conrail Diesel Locomotive #1951 at Kingston, New York on July 17, 1990

ID # 40,975

Conrail Diesel Locomotive #1920 at Kingston, New York in January, 1991

ID # 40,986

Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotive #5588 at Montreal, Quebec in July, 1941

ID # 11,130

Pennsylvania Railroad Steam Locomotive #9390 at Canton, Ohio, November 4, 1939

ID # 9,681

United Traction Company Open Trolley #243

ID # 9,084

Canadian Locomotives, 1836-1860 32¢ Toronto 4-4-0 Type (First Day Cover)

ID # 6,437

Grand Trunk Diesel Locomotive #4447

ID # 6,003

Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #427

ID # 5,911

Built at Delaware & Hudson Railroad Green Island Shops in 1900, builder #55. Scrap in June 1927.

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #811

ID # 3,770

Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1906, builder # 39,956. Former Ulster & Delaware.

Southern Railway Steam Locomotive #1401 at the Smithsonian Institution

ID # 1,692

Even our new car ferry is streamlined!

ID # 28,565

From the September, 1957 issue of Trains Magazine.

See twice as much for the same rail fare

ID # 28,191

From the May, 1948 issue of Trains Magazine.

Rhodesia Railways 9TH Class Locomotive

ID # 27,784

Central Railroad of New Jersey Steam Locomotive #306 in 1910

ID # 26,821

EVERYBODY'S MAIL GOES BY RAIL

ID # 26,035

From the September, 1958 issue of Railroad Magazine.

Catskill Mountain Railroad Diesel Locomotive #29 at Phoencia, New York on September 25, 1992

ID # 24,949

Lehigh Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive #5129 at Sayre, Pennsylvania in 1935

ID # 18,875

Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1913, builder # 39,303.

International Railway Company (IRC) "Elmlawn" Funeral Trolley

ID # 18,356

"Elmlawn" funeral car of International Railway Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Built by Brill in 1895 for $5,798.00. Had 4 G. E. motors, Brill #27 trucks, length 38' 5". Burnt with "Greenwood" at Coldsprings car house fire in 1915.

every month is PERFECT SHIPPING MONTH on the M. & St. L.

ID # 14,506

From the April, 1949 issue of Trains Magazine.

Enroute to or from CALIFORNIA

ID # 12,602

From the May, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.

New World Standard in Travel

ID # 12,598

From the May, 1951 issue of Trains Magazine.

AND THEY STILL SET THE PACE FOR BETTER THINGS TO COME

ID # 11,928

From the August, 1954 issue of Trains Magazine.

New York, Ontario & Western Railroad #362

ID # 11,478

Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotive #8326 at Truro, Nova Scotia on December 19, 1948

ID # 11,179

Pennsylvania Railroad Steam Locomotive #5348 at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in 1938

ID # 9,644

Canadian Locomotives, 1836-1860 64¢ Adam Brown 4-4-0 Type (First Day Cover)

ID # 6,433

Because the mid-1980's will mark the centennial of "The Last Spike" and the 150th anniversary of the first Canadian railway, the Canada Post Corporation will commence a series of train stamps. This is a continuation of the stamp series featuring Canadian transportation, which was begun in 1975 with ships and followed by airplanes. The stamps will recall the days when the railroad was "an image of man, a tradition, a code of honour, a source of poetry, a nursery of boyhood desires, a sublimest of toys, and the most solemn machine - next to the funeral hearse - that marks the epochs in a man's life." The first Canadian railroad, the Champlain and St. Lawrence, opened for business on 21 July 1836. On that date the Dorchester, a locomotive imported from England, pulled two coaches from La Prairie to Dorchester (later St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu) and back. Like many early Canadian lines, the Champlain and St. Lawrence was a portage railway, a short cut between the Richelieu River and Montreal, saving ninety miles of river travel. Mine railroads also gained prominence at this time. In 1838 the Samson, the first locomotive in the Maritimes, began running from the Frood coal mine to the Pictou wharf. By 1850, British North America boasted about sixty-six miles of railway. A construction boom over the next ten years raised the total to 2065 miles. By 1860, an uninterrupted stretch of track connected Sarnia, Montreal, and the Atlantic coast at Portland, Maine. Most contemporary Canadian railroads hoped to tap the lucrative American market, but failed to do so. They depended heavily on government financing and foreign capital, lacked sufficient customers, and suffered financial headaches. Most locomotives, such as the Birkenhead-type Adam Brown, were still imported. Nevertheless, in the 1850's some Canadian railroads began building their own to meet North American conditions. Among these was the Toronto, the first locomotive manufactured in Canada West, built in Toronto in 1853. The locomotive stamps were designed by Ernst Roch of Montreal. The format chosen, which presents the locomotives in profile against a plain background colour, are ideal for presenting the mechanical complexity that makes locomotives so visually interesting. The principal challenge of designing these stamps was to simplify the engines to make a sufficiently strong graphic statement at stamp size without sacrificing significant detail.
Canada Post Corporation. [Postage Stamp Press Release], 1983.

Delaware & Hudson Steam Locomotive #1212

ID # 5,887

New York Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #1868 at East Syracuse, New York in 1933

ID # 2,167

Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1900, builder # 5,580.

More trailers than ever are taking the train

ID # 13,054

From the October, 1968 issue of Trains Magazine.