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It’s a long day for the camera guy, but you don’t have to find them time and brave the weather to see all cars of most trains! We see something for everyone this day: coal, steel, auto, and containers, chemical and general manifest freight trains. Also visit the station and AC Tower.
“The Hub City” seems a pretentious claim for this place of under 10,000 persons. But, it has the Lincoln Highway, two interstates, and two double track railroads to back up that title. For us, we concentrate on the many trains, and varied motive power, of the two big railroads.
The ticket agent at Newark Penn Station raised his eyebrows… and invited me into his office. It was 1969, and I had given him a cross-country itinerary for three us which included a segment from Prince George to North Vancouver over the Pacific Great Eastern. “You’re the first person in twenty years to request that line!” The PGE and BCR via RDC and more, including steam!
The Baltimore & Ohio was a railroad of firsts. By 1842, it had connected Cumberland, MD, with the East Coast.
This is Tain #1 – the oldest name train in the US and America’s longest and first Coast-to-Coast route!
Rubber City region action from the 1950s to 1980s with steam, early diesels and a cab ride.
The early CSX years just after 1986 to 1990 brought an unprecedented array of colors to the Akron scene: B&O and C&O blue, WM red & white, Chessie orange and yellow, Seaboard System/Family Lines grey, plus Georgia, L&N and more.
View the variety of the 1950’s in the Rubber City region. B&O, Erie, Pennsy, New York Central and the AC&Y.
Do you like vintage ALCO / MLW units, steam on the grade (like a Beyer-Peacock 2-8-0) and century-old shops machinery? From the tropical semi-Amazon of Machu-Picchu to the Atacama desert and the almost 16,000′ Andes summit, this is one unforgettable roller-coaster of a rail journey!
The Great White North, by rail, with polar bears and whales.
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