Streamlined NYC 4-8-2 #2873, running as The Rexall Train near Montpelier, Vermont in 1936. From another post card size film negative probably by the same unknown photographer as those already post... (more)

One of the ten Baldwin Hudsons built in 1937 for the New Haven RR prepares to work the 155 miles to Boston in c1939. Photographer unknown scanned from a post card size negative.

The war is over and the troops are gradually coming home. Here a couple are re-united on platform 10 at London's smoky Liverpool Street station. Other soldiers wait, siting beside or on their kitb... (more)

The scene that met a British Army film unit at Caen following the Allied advance after the D-Day landings in June 1944. Photograph by the late Peter Handford, famous for his railway sound recordin... (more)

One of the only three camelback articlated locos ever built, Erie 'Angus' type 0-8-8-0s Nos 2600-02 built by Alco in 1907 for pusher duty. These Mallets were rebuilt by Baldwin in 1921 as 2-8-8-2s... (more)

A photograph taken during the 1914-18 war in France showing a 4-6-4T that has fallen into a canal on the Western Front. It was one of 14 engines from an order for 40 built by Beyer, Peacock & Co.,... (more)

A historic photograph by an unknown photographer showing the LMS 'Coronation Scot' train on show at Hartford during its tour of the USA in 1939. The locomotive is actually No 6229 'Duchess of Hami... (more)

The only 4-6-4 tender locomotive to run in Great Britain, Gresley LNER three-cylinder 4-6-4 No 10000 reverses out of Kings Cross after arriving from Doncaster in 1938. It was rebuilt from a high-p... (more)

Pennsyvania Railroad K4 Pacific #5451 on show at Altoona in 1937. From a negative by an unknown phtographer.

From a negative in my archive by an unknown photographer, NYC Hudson No 5217 gets a mail train rolling out of Marion, Ohio.

Pensylvania Railroad GG1 electric at an unknown location in the 1950s.

A German Army ambulance train has been overtaken by avancing British troops and waits for rescue, its locomotive having run out of water. A photograph by the late Peter Handford who was serving wi... (more)

Another very atmospheric photo by the late Kenneth Field showing a local train from Crewe on arrival in Chester General station hauled by class 2P 4-4-0 No 40653.

A battery of 'flat irons' stand at Valeciennes depot in northern France with Bo-Bo No BB-13033 nearest the camera and Co-Co No 14102 on the right. I believe there were a total of 323 of these 'Mon... (more)

New York Central Hudson No 5242 storms east through Palmyra in the 1930s.