One of my first Kodachrome images captures the Rio Grande Zephyr, train No. 18, curving through Thistle as viewed from the Highway 89 bridge on the east edge of town. The picture was shot with my brand new Cosmic 35 camera that my parents gave me for my 12th birthday. The optics of the lens proved inadequate, and I soon moved on to a second hand Canon FT 35mm SLR.
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
