C&O "Yellow Belly" #490

One of my all time favorite locomotives - this time, a less often shared view of the fireman's side, thanks to a vacant track to the right left by the Museum's more)

C&O No. 490 steels the spotlight from the equally historic B&O "George Washington" 4-6-2 No. 5300.

C&O No. 490 was built by Alco in 1926 as a Pacific, the C&O rebuilt this engine as ... (more)

The train cemetery is just outside Uyuni, Bolivia, near the world's largest salt flat.

Oilfired 4-6-4 steamlocomotive class "H1b" # 2816 "Empress" of the Canadian Pacific Railway, built in 1930 by the Montreal Locomotive Works, with an employee special in Revelst... (more)

British Columbia's Royal Hudson 2860 leads its daily excursion train south over a vintage wood trestle located on BC Rail's mainline in West Vancouver. It would be replaced by a modern steel and c... (more)

This beautiful streamlined 4-6-4 Hudson, number 1400, was built in February 1937 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Accor... (more)

CP 2860, the Royal Hudson, makes its excursion along Howe Sound near Tunnel Point on its southbound return from Squamish to North Vancouver, BC. There are few more beautiful places to be on a sunn... (more)

In 1985, these were two of the main exhibits of the Nürnberg Transport Museum. The class 05 streamlined steam locomotive was built in 1935-1937. One of them (the 05 002) broke the world speed rec... (more)

SNCF 232.U.1 is a French steam locomotive of the Hudson type. It was built as part of a new locomotive program designed for the "Chemins de Fer du Nord" that was delayed by the outbreak of the Wo... (more)

A Royal Hudson at Temple, PA, seen here the year before it was used in the Blue Mountain and Reading's "Golden Spike" ceremony on July 13, 1985. "Atlantic Central" is the orga... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio #490, a streamline hudson steam locomotive is on display at B&O Railroad Museum.

C&O Hudson #490 Occupying a prominent spot in the B&O Museum's car shop exhibit hall is this odd-looking steam locomotive from the post-World War II "streamliner era." You are lo... (more)