David and Goliath on the Overland
A 2-8-0 helper assists the cab-forward 4-8-8-2 road engine on the eastbound San Francisco Overland, climbing Southern Pacific’s Donner Pass line…
Read moreA 2-8-0 helper assists the cab-forward 4-8-8-2 road engine on the eastbound San Francisco Overland, climbing Southern Pacific’s Donner Pass line…
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Tacked on behind a boxcar-turned-caboose, one of short line Western Allegheny’s ex-Pennsy H10 2-8-0s helps a sister move coal and…
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Louisville & Nashville’s Georgian from Atlanta pulls past St. Louis Union Station before backing into the big trainshed. The train is heavy…
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The open hood doors on the left side of a Southern Pacific GP9 reveal the locomotive’s 567C diesel engine, main…
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A green-and-white E6 A-B duo leads the Southern Railway’s northbound Crescent through reverse curves on the north side of Atlanta in March…
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On a frigid February 10, 1951, four Hudson River ferries are in the slips of the Lackawanna Railroad’s Hoboken terminal.…
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East Broad Top car M-1 was assembled in 1927 by EBT’s shops at Mount Union, Pa., from a kit of…
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A great snowstorm buried the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s narrow-gauge line east of Chama, N.Mex., a few days after…
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Tuscan-red E8s roll the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Chicago–New York Juniata beneath the George Westinghouse Bridge, which carried the Lincoln Highway over Turtle Creek…
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Union Pacific’s infatuation with super-sized diesels led to the creation of the General Electric U50 in 1963. The units featured…
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Wabash 2-6-0 573 heads a train on the road’s Keokuk (Iowa) branch just west of Carthage, Ill., on October 18,…
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A Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 thunders through Haverford, 9 miles west of Philadelphia on the Main Line, with the Admiral from…
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