Tag Archives: Trains Several times each year the Strasburg Railroad puts on a “Day out with Thomas” where they bring out a special locomotive outfitted with specially painted skins that give it the persona of “Thomas The Tank Engine” from the books, TV and movies franchise. The character of Thomas first appeared in a book containing a series...  This diesel locomotive was built in 1951 and was used primarily in the role of a “yard switcher”. Yard switchers were used by railroads in the large freight yards to pull together the various freight cars into a train with the classification of cars according to commodity or destination and for changing the position of...  This particular electric locomotive has an interesting history. Pennsylvania Railroad 4800 aka “Old Rivets” is the prototype GG1 electric locomotive. This particular locomotive took part in the trial against PRR R1 number 4800. The 4800 pictured above was at the time known as 4899 and was pitted in a race against another locomotive which was,...  Former Great Western Railway Locomotive 90, a decapod 2-10-0 steam locomotive, it now pulls passenger cars full of tourists on the Strasburg Railroads tourist excursion line. The locomotive originally pulled sugar beet trains about 40 to 50 cars to the company’s towering mill in Loveland, Colorado. Built in 1924 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in...  A look inside the engineer’s cab of the Reading Railroad Switching Locomotive # 1251. The 1251 is one of nine remaining Reading Company engines. This engine was the last standard-gauge steam locomotive in daily operation on a class one railroad in the US. It was built by Philadelphia & Reading Co. in September 1918 from...  When I was inside this boxcar I was taken by the way the exhibit lighting was hitting these milk cans and the way the wood grain was in great contrast to the metal of the milk cans. I sort of felt like a Hobo riding the rails if only for a few minutes. Shot at...  “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” – Theodore Roosevelt A look at a cart that was used during the unloading of freight from railroad cars in the 1800′s. Shot at the Railroad Museum of... |
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