Chesapeake & Ohio took control of the Baltimore & Ohio in the early 1960s, and this timetable shows trains from both. It accompanies each schedule with abstract, subway-style maps of each route, which may have been easy to read but … Continue reading
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In 1946, Pere Marquette Railway introduced the first post-war streamliner, the eponymously named Pere Marquette. This blotter from the Dale Hastin collection says the train offered luxury travel at coach fares. Click image to download a pdf of this blotter. … Continue reading
Out of the 120,000 or so steam locomotives built and used in the United States, only about 220 were streamlined–or, as the Chicago & North Western called it, steamlined–for passenger service. Railroads went to the trouble to streamline steam locomotives … Continue reading