Opened to the Santa Fe on January 18, 1930 for the regional offices of the Western Lines which comprised over 5,800 miles, the Santa Fe Building in Amarillo was one of the oldest and tallest build... (more)

The Pioneer Railroad Beginning in 1972 the Chicago and Northwestern began using an innovative ownership structure which allowed employees to purchase stock in the company and thus the “Emp... (more)

With the merger of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio (GM&O) to the Illinois Central on August 10, 1972, a new railroad name would be created, thus the Illinois Central Gulf was born. Along with a new name w... (more)

Standard Railroad of the South Built by the American Locomotive Co. Richmond Works in 1919, the logo of ACL 1504 still adorns one of the few USRA designed steam engines that remains in e... (more)

True Colors While the logo and name on the side of this locomotive has changed, its true identity is starting to show through as the famous more)

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Pointless Arrow Also known as the “inverted arrow”, Amtrak’s first logo could be see alongside locomotives and passenger cars beginning in 1971 and was synonymous with Amtrak until late 2... (more)

Mismatch This GP38-2 sits on the lead to the NS McDonough training center with a very unique looking NS logo alongside it.

Penn Central The worm logo, as it came to be called by observers, made its debut on Feb. 1 1968 with the creation of Penn Central Transportation Company. Ten years in the making, this merg... (more)

Route Rock With the failed merger into the UP behind in, the Rock Island trustees decided a new image would have to be created to show customers that this railroad was serious about improv... (more)

Southern Pacific Lines Tracing its origin to the 1870s, Southern Pacific’s Sunset medallion could be found on railroad maps, timetables, bridges and even on the nose of E-unit locomotives.... (more)

Seaboard System With the merger of the Seaboard Coast Line with the L&N and all the other railroads that made up the Family Lines System complete on December 1982, the Seaboard System was ... (more)

Beginning with their second order of Dash 8 wide cab locomotives from GE in 1991, the Conrail Quality logo and slogan started to make its appearance on the motive power of Big Blue both new and ol... (more)

Super Fleet Within 30 days of becoming President of Santa Fe Railway, one of Mike Haverty’s first order of business and perhaps most well known was the reviving of the famous Santa Fe silv... (more)

the Action road Built for the Rio Grande in 1963 by American Car and Foundry, this fifty foot double door boxcar was intended to haul copper bullion from plants in Utah and even equipped w... (more)