Milwaukee’s “Viroqua Patrol”
Alco RSD5 572 leads the Milwaukee Road’s local freight to Sparta and Viroqua, Wisconsin, out of La Crosse in October…
Read moreAlco RSD5 572 leads the Milwaukee Road’s local freight to Sparta and Viroqua, Wisconsin, out of La Crosse in October…
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In artwork promoting the Milwaukee Road’s 1947 Olympian Hiawatha, Mom says goodnight to Jimmy and Sally in the upper and…
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Electro-Motive’s four-wheel road-diesel truck, named for the mechanical engineer who designed it, Martin Blomberg, was introduced on the NW3 and…
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The trailing truck for Lima’s 1925 demonstrator locomotive No. 1, the first 2-8-4 Berkshire type, featured four wheels to support…
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One of the Interstate Railroad’s ten Alco RS3 diesel locomotives switches hopper cars in the road’s yard at Andover, Virginia,…
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Few Railway Post Office cars survived the big cuts of 1967. Among the handful that remained was the St. Paul…
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A GP35 and three GP30s lead a 47-car freight up the west side of Denver & Rio Grande Western’s Tennessee…
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In October 1953, a blanket of fog lies over Sherbrooke, Quebec, as Quebec Central G2 4-6-2 2556 awaits departure time…
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In 1968, the Great Northern loaded 50 of its new Big Sky blue covered hoppers in Wolf Point, Montana, in…
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Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 Mallets 1309 and 1302 are departing Scarlet, West Virginia, in June 1950 with a loaded coal…
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Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic DRS-6-6-15 road-switcher No. 201 stands with a bulkhead flatcar of pulpwood, a major commodity in…
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Railfans watch as a Western Maryland coal train swings around famous Helmstetter’s Curve on its descent eastward toward Cumberland, Md.,…
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