Thursday, May 31, 2018

Heavy-Duty Highway

ID # 25,855
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.

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.

See all the West From A UNION PACIFIC DOMELINER

ID # 21,247
From the June, 1965 issue of Trains Magazine.

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.

Monday, May 28, 2018

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.

Sunday, May 27, 2018

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.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

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.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

EVERYBODY'S MAIL GOES BY RAIL

ID # 26,035
From the September, 1958 issue of Railroad Magazine.

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.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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.

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.

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.