At the last spot of our chase and after a crew change, we caught both CP's presidential train and CP 251 which was waiting for the highest priority train on CP's system to clear the tracks.
THE SEMINOLE arrives in Effingham on a cold morning behind a GofG E8 and two IC E9A units. It is crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad's Panhandle Line here and the Pennsy's position light signals ca... (more)
An Alco FA unit and a Baldwin AS-16 sit at Joplin. Mo. Both have been re-engined with EMD prime movers. I was a newly-minted USAF pilot driving on leave from Lubbock, TX to Hackensack, NJ.
Boston and Maine E7 3801 sits at Springfield on a Saturday. My father had driven us there so that my sister could visit Mt. Holyoke College and dropped me off by the railroad, of course.
“Don’t Judge a Book…” “WM”/MMID 97A (ex-MILW 97A), attired in Western Maryland speed lettering, rests at the Union Bridge shops on a Sunday in mid-October, 1985. Despite its... (more)