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["The Sportsman" in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia]
Chesapeake and Ohio's "The Sportsman" headed by Engine No. 491, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, awaits the departure signal at the White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia Depot.
Date:
1940~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["The West Virginian" in the Blue Ridge Mountains]
One of the Chesapeake and Ohio;s excellent passenger trains "The West Virginian" train No. 1 westbound, traversing main line rails through the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Date:
1940~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Train at Gainesville, Texas depot]
Engine No. 306, an American type 4-4-0 locomotive, heads the Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's train No. 31 westbound, which is standing at Gainesville, Texas' depot enroute from Denison to Wichita Falls on June 23, 1940.
Date:
June 23, 1940
Creator:
Mizell, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Texas Special" arriving at Highland Park Station]
Missouri - Kansas - Texas (KATY) Railroad's "Texas Special" train No. 2, northbound, headed by Engine No. 388, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, arriving at Highland Park station, enroute from the Dallas Union Station to St. Louis.
Date:
December 1940
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["North Coast Limited" departing from St. Paul, Minnesota]
Photograph of the Northern Pacific's de Luxe "North Coast Limited" westbound, headed by engine No. 2671 -- a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive -- departing from the St. Paul Union Station. City buildings are visible behind the train.
Date:
1941
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Electro-Liner" between Milwaukee and Chicago]
The Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railway's "Electro-Liner" enroute between Chicago and Milwaukee on a winter day in February 1941.
Date:
February 1941
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Long Island Railroad train]
The Long Island Railroad's train No. 529 westbound, headed by a class G5s ten wheeler, type 4-6-0 locomotive, enroute through Glen Cove from Oyster Bay to Jamaica.
Date:
March 7, 1942
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Chesapeake and Ohio's "The George Washington"]
Awaiting the hour of departure the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's "The George Washington" train No. 2, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 307, a mighty Hudson type 4-6-4 locomotive, stands in the Cincinnati Union Station as the conductor and engineer make a last minute check of the time indicated by their respective watches, circa 1943.
Date:
1943~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Grand Central Terminal in New York City]
Photograph of Grand Central Terminal, New York, May 1943. Facing south on 42nd Street, the building sits squarely in the middle of Park Avenue and motor traffic goes around it by means of two elevated roadways running from 41st Street to 46th Street. The terminal has 123 tracks, 66 on the upper level and 57 on the lower. The upper level has 18.8 miles of track and the lower 14.9 miles making a total of 33.7 miles of railroad track in the terminal and its yard. There are 31 platform tracks on the upper level and 17 on the lower. Of these 48 platform tracks, 11 are loop tracks and 37 are stub end.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Nowak, Ed
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lounge car on "The Bluebonnet" ]
Interior view of the Parlor Lounge Car in the consist of the Katy's "The Bluebonnet" train No. 7 southbound enroute from Dallas to San Antonio, Texas. This beautiful parlor lounge was a standard heavyweight car.
Date:
1943
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["St. Louis Special" departing Chicago]
Illinois Central Railroad's "St. Louis Special" train No. 1-501, headed by Engine No. 2450 - a mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, departing from the Central Station in Chicago.
Date:
1943~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Two trains in Alamosa, Colorado]
A contrast in Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's steam and motive power --- "the San Juan" train No. 215 headed by engine No. 472, a Mikado type 2-8-2 awaits departure signal for its scheduled run over narrow gauge rails to Durango, Colorado. Next to it is passenger train Mo. 15, headed by engine No. 1703, a Mountain type 4-8-2, arriving in Alamose from Denver.
Date:
1943~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[E-4 Streamliners in Chicago]
The Chicago and North Western Railway's E-4 type streamliners, which headed the "Overland Limited" and "Challenger" trains between Chicago and the West Coast, stand in the Chicago Passenger Station.
Date:
1945~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Interior of Pennsylvania Station in New York]
Photograph of Pennsylvania Railroad's great passenger terminal, Pennsylvania Station in New York in 1945.
Date:
1945
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["The Alton Limited" in St. Louis, Missouri]
"The Alton Limited" Chicago and Alton Railroad train No. 4, northbound pulling through St. Louis, Missouri in 1946.
Date:
1946
Creator:
Peters, Walt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Steam engines retired at Chicago Passenger Station]
In the closing years of the "Glory Days of Steam" the Chicago and North Western Railway's work horses stand at track ends in the Chicago passenger station.
Date:
1946~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Texas Special" leaving Dallas]
Rolling northward from the Dallas Union Station, the Katy's "Texas Special" train No. 2, headed by Engine No. 377, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, picks up speed enroute to St. Louis.
Date:
January 1946
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Albuquerque Depot]
Santa Fe's unique mission style depot at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date:
1947
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Alvorado Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico]
Santa Fe's nationally known Alvarado Hotel adjoining the passenger station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, circa 1947. Lower left is the Fred Harvey news stand with Fred Harvey Indian Museum in left center portion of the rambling structure which is surmounted by Spanish style cupolas. The Alvorado was torn down in December of 1969.
Date:
1947
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails"]
Photograph of Santa Fe's "Queen of the Rails" - the "California Limited" train No. 4 eastbound, headed by Engine No. 2928 - a Northern type 4-8-4 locomotive, and a consist of fourteen standard heavyweight cars- crosses the Canyon Diablo Bridge near Winslow, Arizona. Observe this locomotive's automatic-type, elevating smokestack, designed to increase the up-draft, thereby increasing combustion efficiency in the firebox.
Date:
1947~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["The Kansas City Star"]
On a snowy morning at 10 o'clock, with the temperature at 18 degrees, the Union Pacific Railroad's No. 69, westbound, headed by Engine No. 2877, a Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive, departs from the Kansas City Union Station enroute from St. Louis to Denver on January 5, 1947.
Date:
January 5, 1947
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Santa Fe's "The Chief"]
Reminiscent of the "Glory Days of Steam" the Santa Fe's "The Chief" train No. 20, eastbound, tri-headed by locomotives, is climbing to the crest of Raton Pass in New Mexico in May 1947.
Date:
May 1947
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Pocono Express" at Binghamton, New York]
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway's Pocono Express, train No. 2, headed by a big Hudson locomotive, at Binghamton, New York on August 13, 1947.
Date:
August 13, 1947
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Passengers boarding the "Twin Cities 400"]
On a snowy night in December 1947, passengers are boarding the Chicago and North Western's "Twin Cities 400" streamliner at the Chicago Station.
Date:
December 1947
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History