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New technology on the railroad and rapid transit! The German ICE Train (InterCity Express) on loan to Amtrak makes an appearance to the classic Santa Fe Mission style station in San Diego, Calif., August 1993. San Diego Trolley car 1056 is on the new South Line Trolley extension. |
An FJ&G freight train bound for Broadalbin was ready to leave the Gloversville, New York yards on November 4, 1958. Alco S-2 #20 is on the point of the train while caboose #3 is bringing up the markers. Sadly, the FJ&G ceased operations in 1984 after 114 years of service. |
SD40-2 #5649 leads St. Lawrence & Hudson train 556 on this rainy first day of November 1997. The Southbound train is about to go under the Brooker Hollow Road Bridge just east of East Worcester, NY on the old D&H line. |
American type 4-4-0 Western & Atlantic Railroad's #3 "The General", of Civil War Fame, is seen not too far from where it was built in Patterson, NJ, by Thomas Rogers in 1855 as it crosses the East River on the infamous Hell Gate Bridge. The General is under its own power en route to the 1964 New York World's Fair. |
General Motors Electro-Motive Division's 75th Anniversary open house was held on Sept. 21st, 1997 at their LaGrange, Illinois plant with over 50,000 people attending. The shining centerpiece of this all day event was the new 6000HP SD90MAC. Weighing in at 425,000 lbs., 15' 7-7/8" tall and 80' 2" long, the 90MAC boasts world class fuel efficiency with the hghly reliable GM16V265H model engine. The new ITB2830 AC traction motors provide greater tractive effort. Equipped with radial self-steering trucks, it also boasts higher braking effort capabilities, WhisperCab with state-of- the-art features and a full Horsepower speed of 75 mph. |
Big Boy 4004 has a 96 car drag freight behind its multi-wheeled tender east of Emkay, Wyoming, October 7 1958. The 4-8-8-4s were considered to be the largest steam loco- motives in the world. |
Northern 829 heads a 72 car train of mainly stock cars through Grand Island, Nebraska, October 10, 1959. Classed FEF-2, 829 was part of a group of 4-8-4s, numbered 820-834, built by Alco in 1939. |
CSXT 700 The Spirit of Cumberland, rests between assignments at Bayard, WV on 12-1-98. This is the class unit of 25 SD70MAC's, the first AC units CSX ordered from EMD. With 4000-h.p., radial (self-steering)trucks and powerful AC traction motors, the SD70MAC's were purchased specifically for coal and other heavy drag service. |
The Greenbrier Class J3a 4-8-4's, built in 1948 by Lima Locomotive Company, were the C & O's finest mountain passenger locomotives. Number 614 was the last commercially built passenger steam locomotive in the United States. It is seen here blasting past the old Erie Depot at Port Jervis, NY during a series of photo runbys which highlighted an excursion from Hoboken, NJ to Port Jervis on October 12, 1997. The 614 is currently owned and operated by Iron Horse Enterprises, Inc. of Lebanon, NJ. |
A 64 car merchandise freight, with Big Boy 4011 up front smoking across the prairies, is west of Lynch, Wyoming, October 6, 1958. Aptly named, the 4-8-8-4's were considered by many to be the largest steam locomotives in the world. |
M-1 6755 is in charge of this Northumberland to Enola freight on August 26, 1956. The 4-8-2 hustles over the Susquehanna River Bridge as it heads out of the yard. |
This train seems to be over powered with three big Alco six motor diesels on the head of only six cars. The scene is at Ishpeming, Mich. and the power is Alco Century model 628. September 27, 1980. |
There aren't many Alco RS-1's remaining in the country in the early 1990's, but Tioga Central has this one. The 1000 h.p. road switcher is a World War II baby, part of a 1944-45 order to the New York Susquehanna & Western. 240 wears a fresh coat of original colors and number, but lettered for its new owner, and is seen at Owego, N.Y., November 16, 1990. |
A Directors Special heads west out of Portland, Me. over the Presumpscot River on the new St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad, Sept. 21, 1989. The railroad operates 150 miles of former Grand Trunk Railroad from Portland to Island Pond, Vt. |
Four former Santa Fe and then Delaware & Hudson Alco built PA passenger locomotives were sent to Mexico on long term lease in 1978. After some passenger service, the units were stored due to damage. Five years later one was rebuilt for Star Service and is seen here at the Empalme, Sonoro Shops, January 23, 1989. |
A westbound Chessie System freight passes the station at Covington, Va. on September 3, 1982. EMD power sandwiches a GE unit. |
New EMD model SD60M is the first U.S. model to incorporate the new "North American" safety cab. No. 6106, seen here at Denver, Colo. on Sep- tember 24, 1989, is one of a gruop of 131 units numbered 6085-6215 delivered in 1989. |
Former Alaska Railroad EMD FP7's head a pass- enger consist including a dome car on Sep- tember 23, 1989. The excursion train is seen at Albany, Wyo. |
The famous passenger train heritage lives on! Model FP45 diesel-electric locomotive is on dis- play at General Motors Electro-Motive Division open house in celebration of FT freight hauler's Fiftieth Anniversary Sept. 717, 1989 at LaGrange, Ill. |
A member of the growing fleet of locomotives leased to America's railroads, 7306 is supplied to the Burlington Northern by GATX Leasing Corp. The six axle unit is at Denver, Colo., Sep- tember 24, 1989. No 7306 is one of ten former Missouri Pacific SD40's. |