Classic coal hauler
Most offset-side hoppers were built to AAR common designs. This two-bay Minneapolis & St. Louis 2,081-cubic-foot-capacity car, built in 1936,…
Read moreMost offset-side hoppers were built to AAR common designs. This two-bay Minneapolis & St. Louis 2,081-cubic-foot-capacity car, built in 1936,…
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The eastbound City of Portland passes the tower at Clinton, Iowa, behind two Chicago & North Western E units at 9:10 a.m.…
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Missouri Pacific 0-8-0 No. 9721 (with caboose) helps a freight No. 75 up Kirkwood (Mo.) Hill in March 1946. Regular…
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New Chesapeake & Ohio GP7s hustle a southbound freight out of Plymouth, Mich., in the early 1950s. Robert A. Hadley…
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At the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Renovo, Pa., terminal in September 1955, a class L1s “Lollipop” 2-8-2 is prepared for a run…
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New York Central J-1 4-6-3 5403 accelerates toward 85 mph with a mail-and-express train heading west out of Mattoon, Ill.,…
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Having taken on coal and water, Rio Grande 4-8-2 No. 1505 is eastbound at Orestod, Colo., with a freight from…
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Silver Planet was one of six sleeper-dome-observation cars built by the Budd Co. in 1948 for the California Zephyr, operated…
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New York Central J-1 4-6-4 5344 starts the Detroit-bound Twilight Limited out of Englewood Union Station on Chicago’s South Side…
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Although the 2-4-2 type was rare in the United States, Berlin Mills Railway 2-4-2T No. 6, built by Baldwin for…
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Rio Grande train 10, the Yampa Valley, threads through Union Pacific’s 20th Street Yard at right and the Burlington’s coach…
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Pacifics and passenger diesels mingle outside Chicago & North Western’s Chicago Passenger Terminal during the afternoon rush hour in the…
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