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Union Pacific Railroad's Locomotive Number 844

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Union Pacific Railroad's Locomotive Number 844
Chrome unused

Description:
Union Pacific's Number 844, a Northern Type Locomotive (4-8-4), is viewed on June 14,190 while operating an excursion for the Annual Convention of the National Railways Historical Society from St. Louis, Missouri to Findlay Junction, Illinois and return. Built in December of 1944 by the American Locomotive Company, Number 844 has been in continuous service with the Union Pacific Railroad for more than 45 years.

Union Pacific 9002

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Union Pacific 9002
Chrome unused

Description:
New EMD model GP40X enroute from the builder pauses in Chicago, IL, March 4,1978. Experimental model delivers 3500 h.p. to four axles on new high-adhesion trucks.

Locomotive 318

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:00:00 +0100

Title:
Locomotive 318
Real Photo unused

Old Engine Virginia &Truckee Railway

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:00:00 +0100

Title:
Old Engine Virginia &Truckee Railway
Real Photo unused

Chicago & Northwestern 421 & 419

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Title:
Chicago & Northwestern 421 & 419
Chrome unused

Description:
In November 1981, these "presidential" F7A's are ready to head the union pacific/C&NW Director's special coming from the Wyoming coal fields to WEPCO's pleasant Prairie power plant in Wisconsin. Built in 1949 (rebuilt 1972), these EMD 1500 h.p. units pull official inspection trains and act as pilot locomotives when Amtrak detours onto the C&NW.

Central New York

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Title:
Central New York
Chrome unused

Description:
Unit Number 101, an Alco RS-3, as viewed at Bridgewater, New York on October 20, 1977. The Central New York Railroad is one of our Nation's Newer Short Lines with operations beginning in December, 1973.

K45 Locomotive

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Title:
K45 Locomotive
Chrome unused

Description:
Presented to City of Altoona by Pennsylvania Railroad. In Memory of the Old Iron Horse. Located at horseshoe Curve

New Haven & Hartford Railroad's Locomotive Number 3341

Sat, 2 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Title:
New Haven & Hartford Railroad's Locomotive Number 3341
(NY), Chrome unused

Description:
New Haven's Mountain Type Locomotive 4-8-2 Number 3341 lays over at Framingham, Massachusetts on June 11, 1949.

Bridgeton & Harrison's Locomotive Number 8

Sat, 2 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Title:
Bridgeton & Harrison's Locomotive Number 8
Chrome unused

Description:
Bridgeton & Harrison's two foot gauge 2-4-4T Number 8 and baggage car pose in work a day dress at Bridgeton, Maine with an excursion extra in July, 1940. Built by Baldwin in 1924, Number 8 now works for the Edaville Railroad in South Carver, Massachusetts.

New Mellet Compound Engine

Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Title:
New Mellet Compound Engine
Divided Back unused

Car #7 Burgess

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:00:00 +0100

Title:
Car #7 Burgess
(MA), Real Photo unused

Long Island 619

Sun, 8 Oct 2006 18:53:00 +0100

Title:
Long Island 619
Chrome unused

Description:
Built form a worn F9 that was Milwaukee Road 126A, the shop men built this unit into a control cab now classed F9m. It is powered by a Detroit Diesel V-12 engine, which runs the generator to supply hotel power for the train. The unit is incapable of moving on its own. September 20, 1979.

Metro - North 806

Sun, 8 Oct 2006 18:50:00 +0100

Title:
Metro - North 806
Chrome unused

Description:
The first GE B23-7 to wear the new paint scheme. Metro-North Commuter Railroad acquired Conrail locomotives 1900-1909 for additional power for passenger and work trains after Conrail departed the commuter business on January 1, 1983. No. 806 is seen at North White Plains, N. Y. on October 8, 1983.

Old Style Soo Line Wood Burning Locomotive Number 2

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:48:00 +0100

Title:
Old Style Soo Line Wood Burning Locomotive Number 2
Linen unused

Description:
This old Style Soo Line Locomotive Number 2 was a Wood Burner. Had a wheel arrangement of 4-4-0. Built in 1884 by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works. Photo Courtesy of Soo Line Railroad

Chicago North Western Line

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:43:00 +0100

Title:
Chicago North Western Line
White Border unused

Description:
Travel And Transport Building A Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1933. Yesterday! Back in the late Forties the doughty Pioneer, operating over some forty miles of strap rail, was the first locomotive in service from Chicago to the West. Today! The Giant Class "H" largest dual-service locomotive in the world, now in service on the Chicago & North Western Ry., is capable of a speed of 85 miles an hour; can haul 150 loaded freight cars (a train about 1 1/3 miles long) at a speed of 50 miles an hour! The Chicago & North Western Ry. With over 10,000 miles of perfectly equipped railway extending into nine middle western sates, the Chicago & North Western Railway provides a passenger and freight service west, north and northwest of Chicago that is efficient, modern and complete. The "North Western" adequately meets today's travel and shipping requirements.

A Famous Santa Fe Irion Horse Goes Streamlined

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:28:00 +0100

Title:
A Famous Santa Fe Irion Horse Goes Streamlined
White Border

Description:
The Chief - Santa fe's famous all-Pullman streamlined train, daily between Chicago and Los Angeles, is drawn by powerful new 4-6-4 Pacific type steam locomotives, capable of speeds of over 100 miles per hour. The drive wheels of these giants of the rail are seven feet high.

L & N. W. Railway Locomotives

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:10:00 +0100

Title:
L & N. W. Railway Locomotives
Divided Back unused

Description:
"The London & North Western Railway is noted for Punctuality, Speed. Smooth Riding Dustless Tracks, Safety and comfort and is the Oldest Established firm in the Railway Passenger Business."

Largest Engine In The World Used By Erie R. R

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:34:00 +0100

Title:
Largest Engine In The World Used By Erie R. R
Divided Back unused

L. N. E. R. 2-6-2 Express Green Arrow

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:30:00 +0100

Title:
L. N. E. R. 2-6-2 Express Green Arrow
Divided Back unused

Description:
L. N. E. R. 2-6-2 Express goods and passenger engine "Green Arrow." This is the first of a new series of engines completed in June, 1936, at Doncaster Works. The Dome is streamlined and the Cab front extended into a wedge. The weight of the engine in working order is 93 tons 2 cwts. and of the engine and tender combined 144 tons 2 cwts. Driving wheels 6' 2' and Boiler pressure 220 lbs. to square inch.

Great Eastern Railway Express Passenger Engine

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:12:00 +0100

Title:
Great Eastern Railway Express Passenger Engine
Divided Back unused

L. B. &. S. C. R. Brighton Express

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:47:00 +0100

Title:
L. B. &. S. C. R. Brighton Express
Divided Back unused

Machine Electrique Du Simplon

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:29:00 +0100

Title:
Machine Electrique Du Simplon
Divided Back unused

London Midland & Scottish Railway

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:27:00 +0100

Title:
London Midland & Scottish Railway
Divided Back unused

Description:
"The Princess Royal," No. 6200. The largest and most powerful express locomotive in Great Britain. Performs Britain's longest regular through engine working - Euston to Glasgow. 401 1/2 miles, and vice versa.

Casey Jones Locamotive

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:36:00 +0100

Title:
Casey Jones Locamotive
Linen unused

Description:
By riding this Illinois Central 4-6-0 or Ten-wheeler type to his death at Vaughan, Mississippi, in the dark early morning of April 30, 1900, John Luther Jones, nicknamed "Casey," became a folksong hero and his name was added to our language as a term meaning locomotive engineer or railroad man. An early version of the Casey Jones song has the "brave engineer" making his "trip to the Promised Land" on a "six-eight wheeler," a type which never existed. Casey's fast passenger train rammed the caboose of a freight train moving slowly into a siding. The Battered locomotive, originally the 382, was rebuilt and renumbered successively 212, 2012 and 5012. She had other fatal accidents, was branded a hoodoo, and finally went to the scrap pile in 1935. Casey's last home in Jackson, Tennessee, is now a railroad museum. Among the exhibits there is this Ten-wheeler, renumbered to simulate his famous, but doomed engine.

Erie Railroad #2521

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:32:00 +0100

Title:
Erie Railroad #2521
Linen unused

Description:
Erie Railroad #2521 in 1941 by Geo. A. Docright. Used on Rochester - Corning trains, built by Rogers - 1905 c/n 38586; Cyl 22 by 26; Dr 74 1/2; weight 243500. Rebuilt in Meadville, Pa. 1941. Photo from C. W. Witbeck.

Morris Mine Engine

Sun, 22 May 2005 04:42:00 +0100

Title:
Morris Mine Engine
Real Photo unused

Highland Railway

Sun, 22 May 2005 04:30:00 +0100

Title:
Highland Railway
Real Photo unused

Cannonball II Locomotive

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:38:00 +0100

Title:
Cannonball II Locomotive
Chrome unused

Description:
An exact duplicate of the ten wheeler which John Luther (Casey) Jones rode to his death on April 30, 1900, located at the Casey Jones Home and Railroad Museum, Jackson, Tenn.

Pine Creek Railroad

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:20:00 +0100

Title:
Pine Creek Railroad
Chrome unused

Description:
Up front the engineer and fireman attend to their duties at the non-profit New Jersey Museum of Transportation in Allaire State Park, Route 524, Farmingdale, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Train operates Saturday, Sunday and Holiday afternoons May through mid-November.

Empire State Express

Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:14:00 +0100

Title:
Empire State Express
unused

Pennsylvania 4913

Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:13:00 +0100

Title:
Pennsylvania 4913
unused