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Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
9 Existing White Pass car bodies detached from trucks 10 Cabooses originally from Denver & Rio Grande, Denver South Park & Pacific, Great Northern, and Utah & Northern 11 Former White Pass off-rail equipment on display
The White Pass and Yukon Route Class DL-535E (sometimes known as the MLW-Worthington Model Series C-14) is a series of narrow-gauge diesel locomotives that were custom-built by the Montreal Locomotive Works of Montreal, Quebec in Canada between 1969 and 1971 for the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y) in Skagway, Alaska.
Pews in the Messenger of Peace chapel car. Messenger of Peace is a dark green, wooden railroad car made of yellow pine. The car is 70 feet (21 m) long, 10 feet (3.0 m) wide, and 13 feet (4.0 m) high when sitting on trucks. The roof is rounded with an elevated ridge in which are set clerestory casement windows for both light and ventilation ...
The railway also purchased the railroad property of the Peshtigo Lumber Company of Peshtigo, Wi. [3] The W&M Railway was conceived in 1893 by John N Faithorn, a railroad tycoon from Chicago, Il. His idea was to build a railroad connect the iron-rich Upper Peninsula of Michigan, with the steel mills in cities using both railroads and lake ...
WFRX - WFEC Railroad Company; Wells Fargo Rail; WGBX - W. G. Block Company; WGCR - Wiregrass Central Railroad; WGRR - Williams and Grand Ronde Railroad; WHCX - Western Hay Corporation; WHI - Burlington Northern Railroad; WHN - Conrail; WHSX - GE Rail Services; WICT - Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad; WIF - West India Fruit and Steamship Company ...
Otto August Kuhler (July 31, 1894 – August 5, 1977) was an American designer, one of the best known industrial designers of the American railroads. According to Trains magazine he streamstyled more locomotives and railroad cars than Cret, Dreyfuss and Loewy combined.
A 1906 postcard promotion for the Lackawanna Limited; Phoebe Snow stands on the observation car platform dressed in white and holding her traditional violet corsage. Phoebe Snow was a fictional character created by Earnest Elmo Calkins to promote the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The advertising campaign was one of the first to ...