I was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend where, apart from the paddock full of noisy, smelly and otherwise exciting racing cars, there was
(click on all images for full-sized viewing pleasure) (first posted 7/16/2012) It’s been a long, hot day, and I need to cool off – time to take a bike ride […]
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Train Engines at Sibbi Railway Station
High quality photograph of Norfolk Southern EMD F9(A) # NS 4270 at New Galilee, Pennsylvania, USA.
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High quality photograph of VR A16 C # VR S303 at Maryborough, Australia/Victoria.
The Fast Flying Virginian, or F.F.V., was the C&O's first named train dating back to the 19th century. It remained the flagship until eclipsed by the George Washington in the 1940s.
Erie Lackawanna EMD F7A diesel electic locomotive # 6321, is seen leading two other F units while hauling a mixed merchandise freight train along the mainline at Kent, Ohio, October 1969. The third F unit appears to be either an F3 or F5 locomotive. These locomotives are still wearing the old Lackawanna paint scheme. Photo courtesy of Sylvain Assez's railroad photo collection. Sylvain is an active French railway engineer. The name of the photographer that took this photo is unknown. Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for the purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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The Twin Cities 400 was the first in a series of regional streamliner offered by the C&NW, debuting in 1935 between Chicago and Minneapolis.
Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Miami, Florida
MUNI car #1073 rolls Along the Embarcadero in San Francisco during Muni Heritage Weekend 2013. This car is painted to honor El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico, which ran PCC streetcars from 1950 to 1974, the only PCC streetcar line to ever cross an international border. El Paso's PCC streetcars came second-hand from San Diego. A bit ironically, the buyer, El Paso City Lines, was owned by National City Lines (NCL), notorious for buying transit systems around the U.S., ripping out the streetcars, and replacing them with buses. In El Paso, NCL did convert several streetcar lines, but not the international route across the Rio Grande River Bridge into Juarez. First, the line was very profitable. Second, El Paso City Lines only had authority to run streetcars in Mexico -- not buses. So they replaced older streetcars with 17 of the San Diego PCCs in 1947. Because of increased ridership (a rarity for streetcars in that era), they bought three more PCCs in 1952. Since these PCCs were single-ended, with no turning loop at the carbarn, the cars had to back up a full mile to enter service every day. The traditional front-facing PCC seating (seen on No. 1073) was replaced with continuous longitudinal seating along the walls of the cars so that customs officials could check passengers more quickly as they crossed the Rio Grande. The international line came to an end in 1973, when Juarez merchants pressured their government to end the concession, believing too many residents were crossing the Rio Grande on the streetcars to shop in El Paso. The El Paso side of the line shut down the following year. But 10 of the streetcars survive today, with the City of El Paso, now their owner, periodically raising the possibility of restoring some kind of streetcar service there.
Tugboat returns from Alaska to Seattle Harbor
High quality photograph of Great Northern EMD F7(A) # GN 423 at Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA.
High quality photograph of Victorian Railways ML2 # B74 at Melbourne, Australia.
The gorgeous LMS Princess Coronation Class Pacific steam locomotive number 6229 'Duchess of Hamilton' together with the fabulous Sir Nigel Gresley designed LNER Class A4 Pacific steam locomotive number 4468 'Mallard' inside the Great Hall at the National Railway Museum in York (UK). Both locomotives were built in 1938 during the period of intense rivalry between the LMS and LNER. Mallard is the world record top speed holding steam locomotive achieving 126mph in 1938 too.
High quality photograph of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad EMD FL9 # NH 2033 at Westwood, Massachusetts, USA.
High quality photograph of West Virginia Central Railroad EMD FP7A # WVC 67 at Cheat Bridge, West Virginia, USA.
Classic Trains magazine celebrates the 'golden years of railroading' including the North American railroad scene from the late 1920s to the late 1970s. Giant steam locomotives, colorful streamliners, great passenger trains, passenger terminals, timeworn railroad cabooses, recollections of railroaders and train-watchers.
