Category: American Preservation

The E9 saw only marginal sales as rail travel was losing interest among the public. It was the final model in the series with several […]

The E9 saw only marginal sales as rail travel was losing interest among the public. It was the final model in the series with several […]

The E9 saw only marginal sales as rail travel was losing interest among the public. It was the final model in the series with several […]

The E9 saw only marginal sales as rail travel was losing interest among the public. It was the final model in the series with several […]

The GP9 followed the GP7 in 1954. With a slight increase in horsepower, EMD’s second model was amazingly even more successful with more than 4,300 […]

The F9 was a late-model cab design that did not see many sales due to the growing demand and interest in road-switchers like the GP7 […]

Conrail, short for the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was a government creation to save the Northeastern rail network in the 1970s.

The Reading Railroad known in later years by its slogan, “Bee Line Service,” is historically remembered as a successful anthracite coal hauler.

The New York Central, known as the “Water Level Route,” was pieced together by Cornelius Vanderbilt and battled rival Pennsylvania for generations.

The E8, along with the earlier E7, proved to be the pinnacle for passenger models as rail travel was starting to wane during the 1950s.