Extra Board
Welcome to Trains & Railroad of the Past’s Extra Board! We explore a different perspective of classic late era railroading every month. Extra Board welcomes your submissions. We’re looking for about 1500 words accompanied by two or three photos. Each photo should be no smaller than 14 inches (or 1024 pixels) across at 72 dpi (no verticals, please). Brief caption information must accompany each photo. Please send your inquiries to the Webmaster for consideration.
March 2, 2023
Exploring Wichita Falls, Texas: 1962-1963
A New Jersey native explores the colorful railroads around Wichita Falls, Texas, while attending Air Force Transportation Officer School at nearby Sheppard Air Force Base.
March 2, 2023
Erie Lackawanna in Rutherford: Remarkable People
Witness big-time Erie Lacakwanna action and meet the people who made it possible in the area surrounding Rutherford, New Jersey.
March 1, 2023
Car Corner: Boxcars
Some classic boxcars from the collection of Trains & Railroads of the Past.
November 28, 2022
Pennsylvania Railroad Beaver Falls to Conway
Touring the Pennsylvania Railroad main line between Conway and Beaver Falls, including a busy schedule of freight and passenger trains serving industry and commuters alike.
November 28, 2022
Alco Smoke in the Virginia Hills
During the 1980s and 1990s, Winchester & Western employed a fleet of Alcos to lift heavy sand loads up and over the steep grades of Northern Virginia.
November 28, 2022
A Southwest Odyssey
In 1985, several friends discussed making a trip out west to photograph railroad action on the Rio Grande, Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific.
November 27, 2022
Beer Money: Working the Reading & Northern
Reading & Northern took over the former Conrail Reading Cluster of branch lines serving the remaining coal mines in the Anthracite region.
October 7, 2022
Kansas City Southern “White Knights”
Looking back at the era of Kansas City Southern “White Knights” in the 1970s and 1980s, where every locomotive was snow white with a large red “KCS” logo on the flank.
October 5, 2022
1972 and the “Usual Suspects” on the Lehigh Valley
Photographing the close friends we railfanned with were just as important as the trains we chased on the Lehigh Valley in 1972.
October 2, 2022
New York and New Jersey Area Freight Action
The New York and New Jersey metropolitan area was home to a variety of colorful freight operations on both sides of the Hudson River.
