Steam locomotive profile: 4-6-2 Pacific
C&NW subsidiary Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha owned the world’s heaviest and most powerful Pacifics. No. 602 – one…
Read moreC&NW subsidiary Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha owned the world’s heaviest and most powerful Pacifics. No. 602 – one…
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Henry Dreyfus created the timeless design worn by the streamlined 4-6-4s that pulled the Twentieth Century Limited. New York Central…
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BY Neil Carlson The development of the 4-8-2 grew out of the need for a locomotive with greater power than…
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Better than most railroads, perhaps, the Union Pacific understood fast freight service. With an expansive network of lines spread across…
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The proving ground for Union Pacific’s locomotives was a 75-mile portion of its busy main line between Ogden, Utah, and…
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The Spring 2005 issue of Classic Trains includes two stories regarding Fairbanks-Morse’s C-Line diesels: “A new dress for opposed pistons”…
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In 1920, when American railroads emerged from 26 months of government control, the prevailing philosophy of freight-train operation was to…
Read morePennsylvania Railroad’s coast-to-coast air-rail service, run jointly with the Santa Fe and Trancontinental Air Transport, was championed by PRR president…
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The Wabash Railway of 1900 was part of the empire that George Gould inherited from his father Jay. Its lines…
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By 1919, a three-orange logo had replaced the single piece of fruit that adorned the covers of Golden State travel…
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Seaboard’s coach-only mail train, No. 5, at Hamlet, N.C., behind E7 3041 and SDP35 1113. J. David Ingles It’s 300…
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Here’s a variation on a familiar World War II theme, the diverse geographical backgrounds of men serving together in the…
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