... Sometimes I'm surprised we survived childhood.
Woo-Woo Train I got one of those engines for either Christmas 1964 or 1964. Mine ... nicely when backed over with Mom's car.
The Great Train I distinctly remember that exact train though I haven't thought of it ...
Chicago circa 1911. "Train sheds, Chicago & North Western Railway station." 8x10 inch dry plate ... liberty of joining the two views we have of this exquisite train shed. Alas, the geometry suffers in my feeble attempt. However, a great ... Stunningly gorgeous photograph. That is all.
Train Now Leaving Train now leaving on Track 5 for Anaheim ... Azusa ... and ...
July 14, 1929. "New Boston train, 'The Senator,' at Washington's Union Station, departing at 12:30 p.m. The train is to arrive in Boston at 10 p.m., cutting 3½ hours off the time made by ... K-4's? Help us out PRR friends! Thanks for posting!
Train Christening
Washington Post, July 14, 1929.
New ...
November 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. An oil train from the Southwest leaves an Illinois Central railyard for the ... or 15 minutes to go by.
Oh no! Not Algebra! "An oil train from the Southwest leaves an Illinois Central railyard for the ... Road to be sent on to the East." At the same time a coal train leaves the destination in the East, bound for the Illinois Central ...
... corner. In the late 1940s Midwest, I remember taking the train with my grandmother 15 miles into the local "big town" (population 20,000) for a day of shopping. Every small town had a train station. Gone forever, sadly.
What?!? "Are you telling me there is ...
... permitted in a trains air hose. A frozen brake line is a train wreck looking for a place to happen.
Passenger engines such as this ... generator on board to supply a steam pipe to the entire train for heating, air conditioning, cooking, etc. The ice on the pilot would ...
... on Amtrak outside the Northeast Corridor because the train had to yield right of way to a freight train.
C&NW at Nelson This train appears to be eastbound. The ...
Circa 1890. "Mexican Central Railway train at station." Dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. Detroit ... Co. View full size.
Where's the rest of the train? That is an astonishingly short train: A locomotive, a tender, a baggage car, and then either a caboose or a ...
... thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office." 4x5 Kodachrome ... momentum the car needs to properly attach to the growing train, and the retarders are applied automatically.
It's amazing to watch ...
... Kodachrome of Jim and Jack Hardman and their Christmas train set in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. View full size.
Olfactory ... on the living room floor with our oft-shorting electric train set. Nobody ever thought to get a photo of anyone in the act of playing ...
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[Plus, a cigarette! See above. - Dave]
Night Train: 1943 This looks like a painting. Look at the rail house the figures ... and half expecting them to look right back.
Night Train 1943 Re: Kodachrome. I took a night photo in Rome in 1958 with ASA 10 ...
... such worry.
Also, is anyone able to identify the toy train track in the background? It looks like wind-up track, perhaps O-scale?
... off.
Tracks Just noticed what appears to be a model train track on the floor to the right. Wonder if a wee little Christmas ...
... front of the window? Some part of a signaling device?
Train Order Signal The plate with two holes is called a Train Order Signal. When turned to the appropriate position the train's ...
... consisted of 6 kids and my g-grandparents. Probably making train fare a wee bit expensive for my g-grandfather who was a carpenter by trade.
[Or would train fare be considerably less expensive than the cost of moving (and feeding) ...
... beasts “A Modern Dragon,” by Rowena Bennett:
A train is a dragon that roars through the dark
He wriggles his tail as he ... station in December 1942
Wow That's how a powerful train should look.
(The Gallery, Chicago, Jack Delano, Railroads) ...
... entrance to the Hotel Essex, directly from the elevated train platform. A nice perk for guests.
If only -- So 120 years ago, I could walk to my local train station and arrive at South Station, walk out and up the stairs to wait ...
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The garland is particularly egregious. The Pullman train car makes up for it, though.
Train Tech Looks like the trains of the 1920's were not far removed from ...
January 1943. "Conductor handling engineer copy of train orders before a Chicago and North Western freight pulls out of Chicago ... Since the track between those points is under automatic train control, the engineer hands the conductor the key to the automatic train ...