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["The Alton Limited" passing Iles Tower in Springfield, Illinois]

'The Alton Limited" passing Iles Tower near Springfield, Illinois in 1939.

Date: 1939

Creator: Peters, Walt

[South Station in Boston]

South Station in Boston, June 1930. At this date the large train shed was being removed as part of the overall modernization of the station. Platform canopies were the replacement. This large terminal had twenty stub end tracks. In the background a steamship is moored at the wharf and in the foreground are the tracks and depot of the Boston Elevated Railway.

Date: June 1930

Item Type: Photograph

[Cincinnati Union Station]

One of the nation's greatest railroad terminals, the Cincinnati Union Station, March 1933. This terminal was designed to accommodate, daily, 17,000 people and 216 trains (108 inbound and 108 outbound). This station has eight platforms serving 16 tracks. Each platform has length of 1,600 feet. This terminal represents a total investment in excess of forty-one million dollars.

Date: March 1933

Creator: Nowak, Ed

Item Type: Photograph

["L.S. Thorne" crossing the Mississippi]

Texas and Pacific Railway's train ferry "L.S. Thorne" crossing the Mississippi River at New Orleans, circa 1938.

Date: 1938~

Item Type: Photograph

["Gouldsboro" ferry boat]

Texas and Pacific Railway's "Gouldsboro", a steam powered ferry boat, transports a passenger train across the Mississippi River at New Orleans, circa 1938.

Date: 1938~

Item Type: Photograph

[Roundhouse at Gainesville, Texas]

Santa Fe Railway's nine-stall roundhouse at Gainesville, Texas on February 27, 1938. Locomotives, laying over between freight runs, are two Consolidations, type 2-8-0, Nos. 1904 and 1910; one Mikado, type 2-8-2, No. 4051; and one yard switcher, type 0-8-0, No. 787.

Date: February 27, 1938

Creator: Mizell, Charles M.

Item Type: Photograph

[Santa Fe Train in Chicago]

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Train No. 6, northbound headed by Engine No. 3422, a Pacific type 4-6-2, with a consist of ten steel cars rolls past the Chicago suburbs near Weston Avenue on August 14, 1932.

Date: August 14, 1932

Item Type: Photograph

["The Ranger" near Dougherty, Oklahoma]

Santa Fe's No. 1, with two diesel units heading "The Ranger" train No. 6, northbound, with a consist of ten cars, in Big Canyon near Dougherty, Oklahoma, close to the Arbuckle mountain range. The image has been attributed to photographer Preston George.

Date: April 1937

Item Type: Photograph

[Six Texas & Pacific Trains head to the 1936 Rose Bowl]

Texas and Pacific Railway's six special trains, which carried football fans to the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, California, which was played on January 1, 1936, await the hour of departure in the Dallas Union Terminal Station on Sunday afternoon, December 29, 1935. Train No. 1, christened the "Flagship" headed by Engine No. 905, a 900 Class Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, stands on the track at extreme right.

Date: December 29, 1935

Item Type: Photograph

[Pacific steam engine leaving the Chicago station]

Most of the Chicago and North Western Railway's fleet of passenger trains traveled behind Pacifics like No. 2911, seen here leaving the Chicago station in 1939. The city of Chicago is in the background of this photo.

Date: 1939

Item Type: Photograph

[Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad's suburban passenger train]

This photograph depicts one of the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad's suburban passenger trains departing from 64th Street Station Chicago. The train is headed by Engine No. 210 - a Prairie type 2-6-2 locomotive, with a consist of five standard heavyweight passenger coaches.

Date: 1934~

Creator: Hastman, Lee

Item Type: Photograph

["North Coast Limited" in Livingston, Montana]

Northern Pacific Railway's "North Coast Limited" headed by Engine No. 2608, class A, Northern, type 4-8-4 locomotive, makes a station stop at Livingston, Montana. This was a Northern Pacific train from Seattle to St. Paul and a Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy train from St. Paul to Chicago.

Date: 1938~

Item Type: Photograph

["The Hustler" arriving in Shreveport, Louisana]

Known in the Pelican State as the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway's "The Hustler," train No. 4-203, northbound, arriving in Shreveport, Louisiana from New Orleans on an April morning in 1939. The small Pacific, type 4-6-2 locomotive, which heads this passenger train, carries the train's name etched on a metal plate attached to the boiler front, positioned below the headlight. These overnight trains - operating between New Orleans and Shreveport were popular over a long span of years, making t… more

Date: April 1939

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of "Sunset Limited" crossing the Mississippi River]

Photograph of Southern Pacific's "Sunset Limited" train No. 1 westbound, aboard the ferry barge "Mastodon" accompanied by Engine No.73, a steam switcher, type 0-6-0, with a slope-backed tender - is being ferried across the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Avondale, Louisiana.

Date: 1930~

Item Type: Photograph

[Ferry Barge and Passenger Train in New Orleans]

Southern Pacific's ferry barge, the "Mastodon" with passenger train aboard, is taken in tow by tugboats for the crossing of the Mississippi River at New Orleans.

Date: 1930~

Item Type: Photograph

[Ferry Barge and Passenger Train in New Orleans]

Southern Pacific's ferry barge "Mastodon" - with accompanying tug boats - awaits passenger train moving aboard to be ferried across the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana.

Date: 1930~

Item Type: Photograph

["The Owl" at Oakland, California]

Southern Pacific's "The Owl" at Oakland, California depot (also designated as 16th Street) at 7:53 am enroute to San Francisco. This was a fast overnight train operating between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Date: 1938~

Item Type: Photograph

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["The Alton Limited" passing Iles Tower in Springfield, Illinois]

[South Station in Boston]

[Cincinnati Union Station]

["L.S. Thorne" crossing the Mississippi]

["Gouldsboro" ferry boat]

[Roundhouse at Gainesville, Texas]

[Santa Fe Train in Chicago]

["The Ranger" near Dougherty, Oklahoma]

[Six Texas & Pacific Trains head to the 1936 Rose Bowl]

[Pacific steam engine leaving the Chicago station]

[Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad's suburban passenger train]

["North Coast Limited" in Livingston, Montana]

["The Hustler" arriving in Shreveport, Louisana]

[Photograph of "Sunset Limited" crossing the Mississippi River]

[Ferry Barge and Passenger Train in New Orleans]

[Ferry Barge and Passenger Train in New Orleans]

["The Owl" at Oakland, California]