It's 12:01pm at Raleigh, NC and passenger, mail, and express train No. 4 has just released brakes and begun it's northward roll towards Richmond, Va. E7 3034 leads an SDP35 and a typical consist of PRR X29s, REA Express reefers, heavyweight baggage cars, and a single RF&P coach out of the Tarheel State capital in October 1966 ... next stop Henderson, NC.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
