The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...
Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad No. 700 rolled into service in October 1947 and rumbled for decades along the twisting 1.5-mile Hudson waterfront route before the line closed in 1976. The 44-ton diesel ...
On Sunday, Oct. 21, 1957, the fires in the last steam locomotives assigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Northumberland roundhouse were allowed to die, bringing to a close an era that had begun more ...