Railroad history

Railroads have played a role in the history of Cape Girardeau. Here is a collection of photos from the history of rail travel in the area, taken from the Southeast Missourian archives.

This site features daily historical railroad posts from the Big Bend/Columbia Plateau region of Washington state. As a personal site, this is my online filing cabinet of interesting things I've come across about railroading in the area. Thanks for stopping by!

Historical photos are the only window we have to the past and we can learn so much from them. Here are 35 rare historical pictures you must see.

A Railroad Man's Prayer

This drawbridge style cane train crossing over the QR main line near Bundaberg is a site to behold. “The cape gauge main line is used at speeds of up to 160km/h,” photographer David Gubler said on the popular online forum Reddit, “hence they replaced the diamonds by this strange solution.” The sugar cane railway crosses the mainline thanks to an interesting drawbridge mechanism.

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CP yard, Nelson BC.

Struggling Nebraska Museum Sells UP Centennial - Railfan & Railroad Magazine

WOW! Train in India way, way overpacked.

How about an old train stations thread.

Interested in learning much more about out nation's rail history as well who invented the iron horse and when? Find it all here.

1. There is a secret train platform beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York.

‘Crocker’s Car’ brought the tycoon Leland Stanford to connect the East Coast to the West in 1869

Transcontinental Railroad Timetable, 1882, with fare schedules and route map.

**READ FULL DESCRIPTION** This was a great departure scene of an NS mixed freight departing from a red block untill some jack wagon goes around the gates and...