Locomotive 182 of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern leads a freight train across the Cedar River bridge south of Waterloo, Iowa, in the late 1940s or early ’50s. William D. Middleton photo […]
Iowa interurban freight
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Chicago Great Western Railway freight trains
Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of the Chicago Great Western Railway all through December 2021. Please enjoy this photo gallery selected from the archives of Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library. The Chicago Great Western was an agriculturally oriented Granger road linking Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, and St. Paul. Those cities, […]
Chicago’s old Monroe Street Union Station
Before the current Chicago Union Station was opened in 1925, trains of the PRR, CB&Q, and Milwaukee Road used a terminal, Monroe Street Union Station, at roughly the same riverfront location. In this 1919 view, CB&Q Lounging Car No. 201 is on the rear of a Burlington train ready to depart south while Milwaukee 4-6-2 […]
Model railroad humor: Zoom
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Chicago Great Western passenger trains
All through December 2021, Classic Trains is celebrating the Chicago Great Western Railway. Please enjoy this image gallery of CGW passenger trains selected from Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library and first published in December 2016. Only from Trains.com! […]
ScaleTrains.com HO scale Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Havelock Shops 2,566-cubic-foot capacity gondola
Looking for an excuse to sit down at the workbench? Try building this newly tooled gondola kit from ScaleTrains.com. Cody and Eric take a look at the features on this HO scale car. […]
Gas-turbine demonstrator
Experimental gas-turbine-electric No. 101, built at General Electric’s Erie, Pa., plant in 1948, heads a dynamometer car and a freight at Blasdell, N.Y., during a test run on the Nickel Plate Road. Franklin E. Gnau photo […]
Rapido Trains HO scale Pennsylvania RR X31 boxcar
The X31 boxcar was one of the signature cars of the Pennsylvania RR. Join Eric and Cody as they take a look at the features on these new HO scale cars from Rapido Trains. […]
Early Conrail at Conway Yard
This view inside a hump control tower at Conway Yard, the giant former Pennsylvania Railroad facility on the north bank of the Ohio River west of Pittsburgh, dates from the early months of Conrail. Conrail photo […]
Rapido Trains HO scale Pennsylvania RR F30 flatcars
Cody and Eric take a look at the general service and piggyback versions of this new flatcar from Rapido Trains. […]
Past meets future on the L&N
Three-decade-old Mikado 1540 stands with spanking new GP7 500 at Louisville & Nashville’s South Louisville Shops in 1951. Jack Fravert photo […]
Ma & Pa 0-6-0
Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 6 gets a spin on the turntable at the beloved little road’s Baltimore roundhouse in March 1955. H. N. Proctor photo […]
