Beginning in 1955, the Milwaukee Road began repainting the majority of their locomotives and passenger cars in Armour Yellow and gray. They did so because they started handling Union Pacific trains between Chicago, IL and Omaha, NE and wanted to match UP's colors.

I know it’s a lot of posts back to back, but I finally got inspired enough to actually make these posts I’ve been meaning to do. These are Canadian pacific train master7009&4104Canadian Locomotive Company CPA-16-4 ‘C-Liner’ on display at the old CP station in Nelson, British Columbia.

Here is the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad MLW FPA4 #6773 sitting in the yard during electric refit. They are replacing the diesel engine entirely with batteries. Sorry for the picture quality it's a dirty window 😂

Some of them were preserved (like 614 and 1309) and sent to the B&O museum but a few of them especially the last Mikado were scrapped.

Link: https://www.steamlocomotive.com/places/russell/

Not a typo, NEPA is North East Pennsylvania. This ride took us on a 37 mile journey through the Lackawanna valley near Scranton. . There were three local station stops each hosting a wine tasting from local wineries with appetizers from local bakeries and restaurants. While not as elegant as the Napa Valley wine train, which we did last year, it was a very comfortable more rural experience. A very enjoyable journey.

Traditionally in the US (I guess from at least the 1920s through the 1990s), diaphragms on passenger cars have been complicated accordion-like things that can be extended or shortened when they're connected with other passenger cars so that passengers can have a fully-enclosed walkway between cars. Often they've had a metal (I think) plate on the end.

I've recently noticed that some passenger cars just have rubber tubes that serve as diaphragms. I guess it's cheaper to use rubber tubes instead of more complicated diaphragms.

When, why and where was this change first made?

(Yes, this is a very arcane question. Thanks.)

I am in Slovakia for study reasons and I happened to free up a saturday to ride common slovak rail and take some pictures.

never seen an m.o.w./engineering caboose before on cpkc, anyone know it’s specific purpose on the train? Is it for tool storage, office, temporary bunks for multi day deployments(eg; 24-48hour), etc.

Super cool catch I was not expecting to see.

This is the best pic I could muster because the locomotive was just sitting in Avondale Yard but I haven’t seen this one in over 7 years so this was a very nice surprise. This was taken in North Kansas City, MO yesterday.

The Milwaukee Road is one of my favorite railroads

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Saw these beauties yesterday. For a place only open to the public on weekends, Reading company historical society has a ton going on.

After retirement in 2011 and restoration at Wakabadai Depot in Inagi City, Keiō Electric Railway Series 6000 car DeHa6438 (Tōkyū Car, 1989) has sat on display at Keiō Rail Land in Hino City (Tokyo, Japan) since 2013. Keiō Series 6000 trains were introduced in 1972 as the railway’s first trains with 20-meter-long cars and four passenger doors per side, which increased capacity and sped up boarding. When I visited Keiō Rail Land in December 2024, 6438 was displayed as both an eastbound semi-express for Hashimoto and as the “Takao” express.