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Vol. 311 “Biggest Bridges”
Aug 15, 2017·Trackside Photo Contest·Trains Magazine

Vol. 311 “Biggest Bridges”

This “Trackside with Trains” photo contest comes from August 2017. The theme was “Biggest Bridges”. Trackside with Trains was a…

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Union Pacific Challenger on the move
Aug 8, 2017·Photo Of The Day·Trains Magazine

Union Pacific Challenger on the move

Union Pacific’s roving goodwill ambassador, 4-6-6-4 No. 3985, rolls through Cole Junction, Mo., while pulling the Missouri River Eagle special…

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NKP Berkshire making time
Dec 25, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NKP Berkshire making time

The Nickel Plate carried a lot of meat traffic from Chicago and other cities. Here, Berkshire No. 776, with two…

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PRR doodlebugs
Dec 21, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

PRR doodlebugs

Three Pennsylvania Railroad self-propelled motor cars (“doodlebugs”) layover near Penn Station, Baltimore, in May 1955. The cars worked commuter runs…

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West Point Route freight at Opelika
Dec 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

West Point Route freight at Opelika

Eastbound West Point Route freight 208, with characteristically dirty black GPs, switches at Opelika, Ala., in June 1976. David Harris…

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Western Pacific desert meet
Dec 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Western Pacific desert meet

In a view from the fireman’s seat on one Western Pacific train, FTs on another enter the siding at lonely…

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Pennsylvania narrow gauge
Dec 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Pennsylvania narrow gauge

A passenger train departs Waynesburg, Pa., in 1907 on the Waynesburg & Washington, a 28-mile-long, 3-foot-gauge pike that came under…

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