The World’s Columbian Exposition promised to bring millions of people into Chicago in the summer of 1893, and the nation’s railroads were eager to capture as many of those travelers as possible. No railroad did a better job than the … Continue reading
The Empire State Express began operating on September 14, 1891, and this otherwise undated brochure says it celebrates the train’s golden jubilee. That dates it to 1941. Specifically, on December 7, 1941, the New York Central inaugurated streamlined, Budd-built trains … Continue reading
Ragan painted few trains (other than a few background images in his landscapes) for the New York Central before 1939. But his first famous painting, the iconic image of the streamlined Twentieth-Century Limited locomotive designed by Henry Dreyfus, also became … Continue reading
