Doing what Alco’s do best, Norfolk & Western C630 1133 shoves hard on a heavy cut of loaded hoppers at the Lambert’s Point coal docks, as it belches black smoke worthy of a steam locomotive.
Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)
Snow was a rarity in Central Texas in the winter of 1947, but so were steam locomotives on the Sunshine Special
which by this time had been dieselized. The abbreviated consist was indicative of ... (more)
The NS (Central of Georgia) turn to Lafayette (Trains 7/8 in pre-CSX days) used about two miles of rights over the CSX (Western Railway of Alabama) between Opelika and Roanoke Junction. Here, #7 ... (more)