http://www.railroadheritage.org/SPT--Home.php A Web portal for significant images of railroading, by the Center for Railroad Photography & Art. http://www.railphoto-art.org/images/logo.jpg http://www.railroadheritage.org/ 80 75 Steam and Smoke Silhouette en-us info@railphoto-art.org (John Gruber) scott@railphoto-art.org (Scott Lothes) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2620 Electro-Motive model GP40 road switcher stands in front of a steam-era roundhouse. This GP40 was built for BN constituent railroad Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in 1966. CB&Q was merged with Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle in 1970 to form the Burlington Northern. The GP40 was among General Motors Electro-Motive Division standard 645-series diesel locomotives introduced in 1965-1966. It was powered by a 16-645E3 diesel rated at 3,000 hp. The view from the front shows the cab style common to many Electro-Motive diesels of the period, including both four and six-axle types. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:46:23 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2587 Otto Kuhler streamlined a Southern Railway steam locomotive for the Tennessean, a passenger train operated between Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tennessee. The steam locomotive was used on the section of the route between Washington, D.C., and Lynchburg, Virginia. Kuhler left his drawings at the Southern offices in Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve in 1941, quickly returned to New York to spend the holiday with his family. He didn't hear from the Southern again, but a few months later saw "a beautiful green engine--lock, stock, and barrel it was 100% my design." He called it his best design. The Tennessean passenger train operated on the Norfolk & Western from Lynchburg to Bristol, then returned to Southern rails for the rest of the trip to Memphis. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:52:09 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2660 The second section of Leigh Valley's train # 9, The Black Diamond, speeds past Treichlers, Pennsylvania, with 10 cars on April 20, 1946 with 4-6-2 # 2097. The engine was decorated for the railroad's centennial. Lehigh Valley was chartered in 1846 to transport anthracite coal from the vast coal fields of Pennsylvania. It carried freight and passengers between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. Otto Kuhler designed the train in 1940, with a streamlined 4-6-2 Pacific type steam locomotive in Cornell red and black colors, its theme being the railroad’s movement of anthracite coal. The train served Ithaca, New York, home of Cornell University. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:10:37 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2663 D. W. Brosnan, Southern Railway president, and Walter C. Dove, general road foreman of engines-western lines, talk on the station platform at Asheville, North Carolina, where the excursion train with locomotive 4501 paused to greet Brosnan. Dove operated the locomotive on a nine-day trip. The mutual smiles of Brosnan and Dove demonstrate their pleasure with the journey--unexpectedly for Brosnan who eliminated the Southern's steam equipment thirteen years earlier. The trip was arranged by W. Graham Claytor, Jr., then the line's vice-president law and later its president. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:59:18 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2662 Steam locomotive 4501 ran excursions out of Louisville, Kentucky, for three days in 1966. The trip shown here was to Danville, with a stop for water and entertainment by a rock and roll band. On the following two ways, the trips went to Corydon Junction, Indiana. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:55:13 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2664 In mist and rain, steam locomotive 4501 moves around loops and heads down the east slope of the Blue Ridge toward Old Fort, North Carolina. A few minutes earlier, the locomotive and train had been on the tracks in the foreground. This was day eight of a nine-day trip to Richmond, Virginia. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:52:53 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2661 Locomotive 4501 waits for departure time at Terminal Station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on a nine-day, 1450 mile trip to Richmond, Virginia, in 1966. The locomotive, built for the Southern in 1911, had been sold to the Kentucky & Tennessee, a Stearns, Kentucky, short line, in 1948 and renumbered 12. When was retired by the K&T in 1963, Paul H. Merriman bought it for The 4501 Corporation with $5,000 of his own money, and restored it with help from volunteers at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum for excursion use on the Southern Railway. Now, in 2010, Southern successor Norfolk Southern is negotiating with TVRM to return 4501 to mainline excursion service in 2011, its one-hundredth year. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:51:02 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2666 Color postcard of Central Station in downtown Chicago, circa 1924. Passenger trains are visible beneath the trainshed at lower left, while several automobiles are parked near entrance and pedestrians are visible along Roosevelt Road in the right foreground. Lake Michigan is in the background at left. The Illinois Central Railroad constructed Central Station in 1893, replacing its previous Illinois Central Depot near the same location. (This postcard mistakenly uses the prior structure's name.) New York architect Bradford L. Gilbert designed the station in the Romanesque style. In addition to the IC, several other railroads operated long distance and commuter passenger trains in and out of Central Station. In 1972, Amtrak moved all of its remaining trains Union Station, and Central Station was demolished just two years later. Its platforms remain, however, and continue to serve commuter trains on the Metra Electric and South Shore lines as the Roosevelt Road station. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:39:48 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2665 A spring saddle over the third driving axle on the fireman's side of locomotive 4501 broke near milepost 147, 13 miles north of Somerset, Kentucky, on August 24, 1966. After assessing the damage, the locomotive moved slowly to Somerset, where it spent the night. A replacement spring was sent by train from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, a saddle was located in the weeds at Stearns, Kentucky. With equipment and crews assembled, repairs were completed at 8:50 the next morning. A large crowd was at the station in Knoxville to greet the train, which arrived a day behind schedule. A main driving spring is located over each driver journal and absorb road shocks like the springs of your car. The saddle is what it rests in to connect it with the journal. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:38:40 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2686 Color postcard of the Southern Pacific station in Sacramento, California, circa 1939. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:05:35 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2685 Color postcard of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station in Oakland, California, circa 1915. The station, since demolished, formerly stood at 40th Street and San Pablo Avenue. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:05:35 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2680 Color postcard showing the Norfolk & Western Railway's electrified mainline near Bluefield, West Virginia. Note the semaphore signals sharing the overhead bridge with the electric catenary. N&W electrified 27 miles of its Elkhorn Grade in 1915 to ease congestion caused by slow-moving steam locomotives hauling heavy coal trains through the single-track Elkhorn Tunnel. The electrification lasted until 1950, when N&W opened a new, double-track Elkhorn Tunnel and relocated part of the line to reduce the maximum grade. Many short-distance electrifications in the U.S. ended with the advent of diesel locomotives, but the N&W's is one of the few to be replaced by steam power. (N&W did not begin dieselizing until 1955.) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:05:35 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2679 Steam locomotive and mainline of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company (a Union Pacific subsidiary) in the rugged canyon of the Deschutes River in north-central Oregon, circa 1910. The Deschutes River was the site of one of the nation's last "railroad wars," as competing crews of James Hill and E. H. Harriman interests built lines on opposite banks of the river, often attacking and sabotaging each other. Hill's Oregon Trunk right-of-way and construction tents are visible across the river at left. The two railroads' desire to reach California via central Oregon led to costly duplication, and eventually they reached an agreement to use the Oregon Trunk line, resulting in the abandonment of the OWR&N (which is now a bike trail). BNSF Railway owns and operates the route today, but Union Pacific has trackage rights. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:05:35 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2678 Color postcard of Atlantic Coast Line streamlined diesel passenger train and station in Orlando, Florida, circa 1949. The Spanish Mission style station, designed by architects M. A. Griffith and W. T. Hadlow, opened in 1926 for the ACL and today serves Amtrak long distance passenger trains. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:05:35 -0500 http://www.railroadheritage.org//SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=2677 Color postcard of Union Station in Washington, D.C., circa 1912. Designed by architect Daniel Burnham, the station opened in 1908 and features elements of Classical, Beaux-Arts, and American Renaissance styles. It allowed the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads to remove their previous terminals from the Washington Mall, and the station served as the gateway to the nation's capital for its first four decades of operation, serving as many as 200,000 daily passengers. Washington Union Station received National Historic Landmark designation in 1969 and today is among the most popular attractions in the city, hosting some 32 million annual visitors. Amtrak, MARC, and VRE provide rail passenger and commuter service, and the station serves as Amtrak's headquarters. Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:05:35 -0500