The Fireman on the westbound Empire State Express exchanges pleasantries with his fellow rails on an eastbound counterpart, lead by 4019.
Anyone want to take a stab at what train this might have been? Figure mid morning and westbound, pulling NH baggage/express and heavyweight PRR/Pullmans in the 1100-series, this pair of EMDs pau... (more)
A westbound with roadworn E7A 5873, EMD builder plate intact and chicken-wire equipped, pulls into the Pennsy side of the Union depot with a late morning train. PRR Class EP20.
A Water Level Route passenger train has arrived, equipped with a steam generator, at the Rochester station. Steam engines or not, passenger trains were still in need of an active steam line well ... (more)
SCL No. 22, Silver Star, threads the crossover from the east track to the west track at Millbrook, NC as 4 E7's handle the 15 car passenger train through the North Carolina countryside.
E7 #101 leads passenger train #1, “The Alton Limited” past the Bloomington yards and will be arriving at the station in about a half mile. The Subway Club in the background was comprised of t... (more)
At Kansas City ... I don't know the name of the train but as recollection serves, it was a mail train perhaps to Omaha. Any help or knowledge would be helpful!
The remnant of the "Royal Palm" slowing for its station stop
SCL No. 21 (Silver Star) sweeps through Millbrook, NC just north of Raleigh, NC led by an ex-SAL E7A equipped with a hancock air whistle, an ex-ACL/ex-RF&P E8B and 12 cars.
The "old" (pre-trainman's strike) FEC was a big passenger hauler, taking the ACL and SAL trains down the Florida coast from Jacksonville to Miami.
Always playing second fiddle to ACL, Seaboard still managed a nice fleet of E units.
One of ACL's 100 mph speedsters rests at Jacksonville. Note the inductive train stop shoe and mechanical speed recorder drive.
Handling newspapers, packages and passengers at a noonday stop at Asbury Park