DL&W Coal Hoppers

Hopper cars like these carried the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's heaviest and most profitable freight - anthracite coal.

With increases in coal production came the need to increase hauling capacity. In the decades before 1900, the DL&W progressed from ...

Long Island Railroad #193 Rotary Snow Plow

This rotary snow plow (built in 1898) worked the Long Island Railroad for sixty-nine years, until its retirement in 1967.

The Long Island #193 was a Canadian-invented plow designed to reduce the cost of snow removal. Much like a modern ...

Claremont & Concord Snow Plow #60

Coupled in front of the locomotive, this type of wedge-shaped plow simply pushed snow to the side. Because of their reliance on a locomotive's momentum, plows were often operated at high speeds - a practice fraught with danger. Nonetheless, snow ...

Bullard Company #2

This oil-burning steam engine was designed to be operated by a single engineer-fireman and was among the smallest standard-gauge locomotives ever built.

Locomotive #2 operated up and down the railroad sidings and loading tracks outside the Bullard Company's Bridgeport, Connecticut, machine ...

Christopher Columbus

1451 – 1506

Dedicated in memory of

the courage and

determination of

Christpoher Columbus.

He followed his dream,

and discovered America.

Erected by the

Columbia

Italian-American

Club of Union

October 13, 2000

Marker is on Morris Avenue 0.1 miles east ...

Operation Iraqi Freedom - War Memorial

Vigo County Indiana

[ Front ]

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Killed In Action

From Vigo County

[ Obverse ]

Kyle W. Childress

Courtesy hmdb.org

Passengers and Products

Welcome to Camden Tower Courtyard. This space and the warehouses you see along the walkway are a part of the William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures National Historic Landmark. This landmark includes the William Aiken House, located at 456 ...

Ligonier Depot

Pennsylvania Game Commission, Southwest Division HQ

Dedicated April 6, 1957

to

Better Wildlife Management

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On November 3, 1955, the Game Commission purchased this property from the Ligonier Valley Railroad Company, which was incorporated on April 13, 1853. Construction of the railroad was completed December ...

Union Pacific #4012

Locomotive #4012 is a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. The Big Boys were the longest and among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives in the world.

Even with their great size, the Big Boys were capable of reaching speeds in excess of ...

Governor Ben Walter Hooper

Born in Newport on October 13, 1870, Hooper was a successful Cocke County attorney.

He was elected governor and served two terms, 1911-15. His election is attributed to the influence of fusion, the coalition of the prohibition factions of both major ...