Portal:US Railways/Selected picture/2008 archive

This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:US Railways in 2008.

January

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's San Diegan passenger train runs southbound through San Clemente, California, on April 19, 1973.

February

Pennsylvania Railroad class N1s locomotive 7246 under steam in Youngstown, Ohio in 1919.

Pennsylvania Railroad's N1s was a class of steam locomotive built for Lines West. They were of 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" wheel arrangement, ten driving wheels with a two-wheel leading truck and a two-wheel cast KW-pattern trailing truck under a giant firebox. This arrangement was well suited to the N1s' intended purpose, which was as a heavy drag freight engine for coal and iron ore traffic to and from Great Lakes ports. They were built in 1918 and 1919; 35 were built by ALCO-Brooks and 25 more were built by Baldwin.

March

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train locomotive

The Old Nashville, a 4-4-0 locomotive used to power Abraham Lincoln's funeral train on its trip from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, in 1865.