https://www.american-rails.com/railroads-blog.html Visit the American-Rails.com blog to check out the latest new articles or updates to the site. Subscribe here. en-us railroads Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:47:39 -0400 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:47:39 -0400 american-rails.com https://www.american-rails.com/milwdrstr.htmlf1218f94285d4d74ae9020ab90bf8c8fAll-time diesel roster of the Milwaukee Road. 1,208 locomotives, each frame once. Alco, Baldwin, Davenport, EMD, Fairbanks-Morse, General Electric, and Whitcomb, with builder numbers.
Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:44:10 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/milwstm.html6055445423ba4e0b01967df21b282554Milwaukee Road steam locomotives built since 1900. Prairies, Mikados, the N-class articulateds, the S-class 4-8-4s, and the Hiawatha Atlantics and Hudsons. Quantity column 1,974. Unique frames 1,951.
Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:38:43 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/milw.htmlba6d3c427dfa3c0b6af8701afd7af810The Milwaukee Road, from the Milwaukee & Mississippi of 1850 to the Pacific Coast Extension, the Hiawathas, and the Soo Line sale. Why Lines West should have stayed.
Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:20:14 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/lsi.htmlaa5aff48e332de58866ecfcdf5773a6fLake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad, reporting mark LSI, from the Marquette Range to the Presque Isle ore dock. The 1954 steam list and the diesels the railroad owned.
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:38:47 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/kansassteam.htmlfd0bd3722ce70d53cfbd485d2de49aafSteam locomotives of the Kansas City Southern built since 1900, with the Louisiana & Arkansas and the Texas company.
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:09:22 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/kansasdiesel.html2dc15feca9aba7cef82bd3daa08f5dcfAll-time diesel roster of the Kansas City Southern. E units, F units, Geeps, SD40s through SD70ACes, Fairbanks-Morse, Baldwin, Alco, and General Electric, with serials and order numbers.
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:46:59 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/kansas.html8624396c37a5b77a095c4689cb5f187fThe Kansas City Southern, from Arthur Stilwell's Gulf line to Canadian Pacific Kansas City on April 14, 2023. Steam and diesel rosters, the Southern Belle, and the Louisiana & Arkansas.
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:24:05 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/harbordiesel.html390c2070a27dd99f897bb337aea02656All-time diesel roster of the Indiana Harbor Belt. 202 locomotive frames, each counted once. NW2s, SW7s, SW1500s, road switchers, and gensets. Slugs and boosters are outside the count.
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:17:53 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/harborsteam.html84668efd388e91b22f97ccb026dd553cSteam locomotives of the Indiana Harbor Belt built since 1900. 182 engines, each counted once. 0-6-0s, 2-6-0s, 0-8-0s, and 2-8-2s. The three U-4a switchers are three-cylinder Brooks engines of 1927.
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:13:36 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/harbor.html83fb45b5d22d7618807a448c7d150248Indiana Harbor Belt, the inner belt across the Calumet, from the East Chicago Belt of May 16, 1896. Renamed June 29, 1907. Still operating, headquarters Hammond. Steam roster is the companion, 182 locomotives built since 1900. Diesel roster is the companion, 202 frames.
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:51 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/pmotor.html834bd91592ba3481889934aa4f0120b8New York Central P motors: 22 Alco-GE 2-C+C-2 electrics, Cleveland Union Terminal 1050–1071, class P-1a. 3,030 hp one-hour on 3,000-volt DC catenary, then 660-volt third rail as P-2a and P-2b.
Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:43:25 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/itcars.html5fa728d002e56bd2ab6f2aee3e5ef49bIllinois Terminal cars. Mainline motors, the 1948 streamliners, sleepers, Alton and Valley Division cars, express motors, and the line cars rebuilt from pull cars.
Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:40:16 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/itdiesel.html92cd0226ec04e69642f60c00555633ecAll-time Illinois Terminal diesels, 62 frames. Alco S-2s and RS-1s, EMD switchers, GP7s, SD39s, GP38-2s, and the two GP20s. Serial numbers from the 1989 roster.
Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:31:03 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/itelectric.htmlb99b327320c336b777ba0f7454aa84efIllinois Terminal electric locomotives, 57 frames. Class A through Class D, the Decatur-built motors, and the battery locomotives. Class D is the same five Class C frames, rebuilt.
Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:22:45 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/itsteam.htmld296bcc9392c6f0b308de6be915767acIllinois Terminal steam locomotives, 36 frames. Baldwin Moguls, three Class 30 Mikados, Florida East Coast 0-8-0s, and 2-6-0 No. 21, the last fire on June 30, 1950.
Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:37:35 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/it.html32ea1ba1b61daffb30e57d03147a65ffIllinois Terminal, McKinley's Illinois Traction System, from the Danville coal towns to St. Louis. The McKinley Bridge, the sleeping cars, the 1937 break with the power company, the 1948 streamliners, and Norfolk & Western control on May 8, 1982.
Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:32:38 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/soudiesel.htmlf634d3f37a5b4e32fd19ae38161007f3All-time diesel roster of the Southern Railway. 2,505 locomotives in the system number series, from the 1939 demonstrator FT to GP50s and B30-7A1s. Serials included.
Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:00:27 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/icdiesel.html2809b087439cc7351e1b675b644eab93Illinois Central and Illinois Central Gulf diesel locomotives, each frame once. The quantity column is 886. Serials and order numbers from Electro-Motive's builder lists. Paducah rebuilds and Gulf, Mobile and Ohio units are outside that total.
Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:06:15 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/icgdiesel.html5be6872b956d7b6a7940c92a57bc2a0eIllinois Central Gulf operating numbers from August 10, 1972, to February 29, 1988. New frames stay on the Illinois Central diesel roster. Gulf, Mobile and Ohio frames stay on that roster. No Gulf fleet total.
Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:02:07 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/illinois.html9504dea7a30a4950b00dfb9ac3dcbbd7Illinois Central, the Main Line of Mid-America, from the 1850 land grant to Canadian National control on July 1, 1999. Charter lines, Cairo bridge, Paducah, and the Illinois Central Gulf. Steam quantity column 1,861. Diesels 886.
Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:50:51 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/gtwdiesel.html7d3899e339076d9663d12a8ee990901fGrand Trunk Western diesel locomotives, each frame once. The quantity column is 377. Serials are filled for the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton and Detroit and Toledo Shore Line engines the railroad kept. Shared, repeated, and unresolved series stay outside that total.
Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:53:38 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/gtwsteam.html5b2d3669d136ff4c0f818846d17c809bGrand Trunk Western steam locomotives in service about 1937 to 1942, from Richard Leonard's class list. Drury has no chapter. The quantity column is the counted Grand Trunk Western rows. Two mixed Grand Trunk rows stay outside that total.
Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:14:06 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/gtw.htmldc9894c5b2107d4be84480ab7215760eGrand Trunk Western, reporting mark GTW, Canadian National's railroad between Port Huron and Chicago. Trade name adopted in 1923. Steam class list quantity 232. Diesel quantity column 377. Identity inside Canadian National since January 1, 1996.
Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:09:04 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/gbw.htmldbfb815da5fad5b757df37d788254f16Green Bay & Western, the Green Bay Route, reporting mark GBW. From Kewaunee to Winona. Mailer's steam and diesel rosters, and the August 1993 sale to Fox Valley & Western.
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:18:13 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/cnwe4.html1eccaec49da7db63ef9fc87b8fae5e7aC&NW Class E-4, nine streamlined 4-6-4s, 4001–4009, Alco 1938. 84-inch drivers, 25-by-29 cylinders, 300 psi. Conventional Chicago–Omaha trains. Oil in 1947–48. Retired 1953–1956.
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:28:55 -0400 https://www.american-rails.com/gwwr.htmlef267cac223c6a817234bd6fb104b8c0Gateway Western Railway, reporting mark GWWR. Class II from Kansas City to East St. Louis. Kansas City Southern control May 5, 1997. The 1992 diesel fleet, with serials and order numbers.
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:43:58 -0400