Steam trains

Long before there were bullet trains and high-speed light rail systems, people experimented with creating super-streamlined trains that could whisk people across the country in Googie splendor. In some alternate universe, these streamlined trains of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s are still in service.

High quality photograph of Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Steam 2-8-2 # CTS 489 at Cumbres, Colorado, USA.

High quality photograph of Union Pacific Steam 4-8-8-4 # UP 4014 at Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Lovely old steam engine panting across a beautiful viaduct.

"Puffy", the 1896 Tarantula/Grapevine Vintage Railway steam locomotive, is about to roll off of the turntable at the Stockyards.

Thirty yards or so down the track, the respective engineers would throw their trains’ throttles wide open, and the crews would jump to safety. Physics

The C2 class loco charges out of the tunnel just up from Mifengyan station on the Shibanxi narrow gauge railway, Sichuan Province, China. © David Hill December 2008. View On Black

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Morning Run is a photograph by Jonathan Steele. Essex Steam Train's engine 3025 blowing a stack of smoke as it starts to climb a small hill. Source fineartamerica.com