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Historic Rail Photos

WELCOME to the NRHS' Historic Rail Photos Collection. This section contains a changing series of photos depicting the activities of our society and portraying our railroad heritage with the occassional current railfan shot added in. Many of the photos were taken by noted rail photographer, Alex Mayes. Alex is the official photographer of the National Railway Bulletin. 

Check back here often. At least some of the photos will change about once a month; The photo in each category will change about every three months provided that new material is available. The categories will also vary. Categories that appear with a yellow background have been recently updated with a new photograph.

Please be patient as some categories contain large pictures and will take longer than our average of 30 seconds to load over a 28.8 modem.  We think the wait will be worth it!

If you are interested in providing material for this section of our web site, please contact us.

Photo Categories
(*date denotes last time the picture was changed)

Extra Board
(1/18/2006)

Historic Passenger  Stations
(8/20/2007)

Historic Passenger Trains
(9/9/2006)

Steam
(9/10/2006)

NRHS Events
(3/18/2005)
Railroad Facilities & Structures
(10/21/2001)
Vintage Diesels
(1/16/2006)
Historic Freight Equipment
(1/16/2006)
Famous Railroad Scenes
(1/1/2002) 

Union Pacific Steam Program
(3/18/2005)

Streetcars, Trolleys, and Interurbans
(2/20/2003)

Western U.S.
(9/10/2006)

Southeastern US
(9/9/2006)

Administrator's Choice
(9/9/2006)

Rail Ships, Barges, Ferrys, etc.
(5/24/2001) 
Electrics
(3/18/2005)		 Northwestern US
(9/10/2006)  		Night Photos
(3/18/2005) 
Midwest
(1/18/2006)
Gas-electrics
(7/4/ 2003)
NRHS Projects
(9/10/2006) 
  Working on the Railroad
(9/9/2006)		 Northeastern US
(6/25/2007) 
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