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Trains portal; This category relates to: Railway companies that are no longer operating under their own name (known as "fallen flags" in the US). They may have been purchased by other railroads, gone bankrupt, or been merged; and
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad (DT&M) [5] Detroit and Pontiac Railroad (D&P) Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway (DGH&M) Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad (DTI) Erie Railroad (Erie) Florida Overseas Railroad; Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad [6] Grand Trunk (GT) Great ...
This file comes from the Roger Puta collection, which passed to Mel Finzer.They were scanned/posted by Marty Bernard and are in the public domain. Attribution to "Roger Puta" is not required for a public domain image, but should be done as a matter of courtesy to a major Commons contributor.
Ahnapee and Western Railway logo. The Ahnapee and Western Railway (A&W) was a common carrier shortline railroad located in northeastern Wisconsin.. The railroad ran 34.5 miles (55.5 km) from a connection with the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad at Casco Junction to the lakeshore terminals of Algoma in Kewaunee County and Sturgeon Bay in the "Door County thumb" of Wisconsin.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (reporting mark BLE) was a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles (224 km). The original rail ancestor of the B ...
An 1892 McCord Museum archival photo depicts a head-on collision between two Bay of Quinte Railway engines. On October 2, 1912, a BQR train derailed on a curve on the K&P line five miles north of Kingston, sending the second car from the engine and four freight cars, the mail car and a passenger car down a 12–15 foot embankment, killing two ...
Before "The Broker" left Jersey City, conductor John Bishop reminded engineman (that is the Pennsylvania Railroad's referring for engineer) Joseph Fitzsimmons about the speed restriction. It was not the railroad's practice to install warning lights in such cases, and Fitzsimmons failed to slow the train as it approached Woodbridge.
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.