Morrell meat reefers
Meatpacking firm John Morrell & Co. led the switch away from ice in refrigerator cars. Two of Morrell’s Mather cars…
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Meatpacking firm John Morrell & Co. led the switch away from ice in refrigerator cars. Two of Morrell’s Mather cars…
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A single E6 diesel leads Louisville & Nashville’s Cincinnati–New Orleans Humming Bird through Turner, Ky., in 1948. A rebuilt heavyweight…
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Great Northern’s postwar streamliners between Seattle and Vancouver, the Internationals, carried 60-seat coaches with a pine-tree motif in their upholstery.…
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Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 1146 helps 2-8-8-2 Mallet 3406 hoist a 27-car freight up the 2-percent grade between…
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Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No. 1647 makes 40 mph along the Kanawha River east of Handley, W.Va., with coal bound…
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This 1940s night view of Galesburg shows the lineup of carts for hauling mail and express. Galesburg was on the…
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Chesapeake & Ohio 4-4-2 No. 281, stands at the Monon’s Hammond, Ind., station, ready for the 8:45 a.m. departure on…
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An old wooden caboose carries the Nickel Plate Road’s famous slogan advertising the road’s expedited freight service. Classic Trains coll.…
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New York Central Alco FA diesels lead a freight near Jersey Shore, Pa., at the south end of Pine Creek…
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