The old Southern Pacific Grand Central Station in Houston back before WWII, soon after it was opened in 1934. The modern Art Deco structure sported many amenities but only lasted twenty-five years and closed in 1959 when it was demolished to make room for the new US Post Office building. The top floor housed a huge, two rail, 0 scale model railroad.
Much more recently, in New York City, the old main post office building was transformed into a new railroad station.
Beautiful architecture and a huge model railroad upstairs... what's not to love? Absolutely majestic, like a big city train station must be!
MOW crew in Lewisville Texas in 1883. The Dallas and Wichita railroad arrived in 1881. Now that there is some super elevation.
No overweight guys on the section gangs. My maternal grandfather was one and ended up a foreman. He was tall and thin although I never knew him as he died in about 1940 of tuberculosis as a result of being exposed to mustard gas in WWI. Doug
Palouse River & Coulee City in Fortine, Montana The train is actually on the Mission Mountain Railroad, which connects the BNSF mainline at Stryker, MT with various timber industries between there and Eureka, MT, just south of the US/Canadian border. The Watco Companies own both the Mission Mountain Railroad and the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad of Idaho, whose locomotive is seen here.
That's really neat. I did a little search to find that this was taken at Pittsburgh in 1959, a special car to advertise TV show guests Sky King & Penny King and Annie Oakley & Tagg Oakley at the fair. I'm too young to recall either show, but one of my older brothers was a big Sky King fan.