Nostalgia & History > 9 of Very Varied Older Bill Howes Slides

1. Boston & Maine S4 1271 built August 1950 seen at White River Jct., VT in August 26, 1959.  Bill Howes photo

2. D&RGW SD40-2 5386 built August 1978 seen eastbound in Byers Canyon, CO, slide date November 1981.  Bill Howes photo

3. Seaboard Coast Line GP7m 978 at Howell Tower, Atlanta, GA 1972.  Bill Howes photo



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/31/23 14:33 by MartyBernard.

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4. Seaboard Air Line Cars, Jacksonville, FL in 1956.  Bill Howes photo

5. Southern Railway No. 722 with Savannah & Atlanta No. 750 double heading an excursion train.  Bill Howes photo.

6. The Empire Builder on the CB&Q between Prairie du Chien, WI and Savannna, IL, no date. This is a Blackhawk Films slide, Bill Howes collection.

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7. Union Pacific westbound freight with Centennial Units just joining ATSF tracks at Daggett, CA, January 8, 1973.  Bill Howes photo

8. Western Pacific Caboose 679 in Oakland, CA January 6, 1973. Now at the museum in Portola, CA.  Bill Howes photo

9. Western Pacific California Zephyr in Feather River Canyon, CA September 2, 1959.  Bill Howes photo



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Thanks for posting this great set of Bill Howes pics.  I especially love the two SAL pics.  It was great to see the SAL passenger car pic.  It shows one of SAL's upgraded baggage coaches.  Growing up I enjoyed riding these nice cars on the rear of mail trains 3 and 4.   There were a few SAL baggage coaches not upgraded.  Sometimes SAL used one of those not upgraded baggage coaches as a caboose for the flagman on local passenger / express / and mail train No. 6 on the nights when No. 6 carried a lot of pigs behind the passenger cars.

I think number 5 is at Richmond, VA.

Really like number three at Howell as they cross over the Southern. Stood at that spot several times in the late eighties to mid nineties. Definitly a no no these days. 

Thanks for posting, Marty.  #2 is an SD40T-2.  The Rio Grande only rostered these and did not have convention 40-2's.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

neat coal car on the double header

Great historical photos....Bill certainly got around.  In Vermont one week, riding the CZ the next.

I think the B&M RDCs in photo #1 are the Springfield, MA - Montreal Ambassador.  For a brief period in the late fifties, the B&M/CV/CN operated B&M RDCs on their portion of the daytime Grand Central - Montreal service, requiring passengers change to/from a conventional New Haven train.  Prior to that, the "Ambassador" had been a Boston - Montreal B&M/CV/CN through train, that also carried through cars to/from New York via the B&M River line and New Haven.  In late 1959 or 1960 the pattern was again altered so that the Ambassador ran as a conventional train Montreal to New York, and Boston passengers connected at WRJ to a B&M/CP RDC train running from Montreal Windsor Station to Boston North Station.

Also great to see the CZ with it's full "as built" consist in 1959.  Seems like that became increasingly rare in the early 1960s, with truncated consists in the winter and summer consists expanded with "foreign road" equipment.

Dave