Tidewater transience
Two Geeps (center left) bring a train into Chesapeake & Ohio’s sprawling coal storage yard at Newport News, Va. Cars…
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Two Geeps (center left) bring a train into Chesapeake & Ohio’s sprawling coal storage yard at Newport News, Va. Cars…
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Western Maryland 4-6-2 No. 207 waits with train 1 at Thomas, W.Va., on April 29, 1951. From here, at an…
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Gainesville Midland 2-10-0 No. 207 switches tank cars at Oconee Height, Ga., in April 1957, just northwest of Athens. The…
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St. Paul Union Depot Co. Vice President and General Manager Harry P. Congdon looks out on a Chicago Great Western…
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The clouds of smoke from double-headed steam locomotives illustrate a disadvantage to riding behind them — particularly with open windows.…
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Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 cab-forward No. 4203 works hard in pusher service on Tehachapi Grade near Woodford, Calif., in August 1948.…
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Fruit Growers Express helped pioneer mechanical refrigerator cars. This 55-foot, 60-ton car was built in 1957 and just had a…
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Great Northern inaugurated the Red River connecting Grand Forks, N.Dak., and points east on June 25, 1950, as a four-car train. This…
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SD39 No. 4007 works freight on the Santa Fe at Las Cruces, N.Mex., in 1970. Only 59 of this 12-cylinder,…
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A New York Central switcher pulls a string of loaded open-rack cars in the early 1960s. The auto rack car,…
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Kansas City Southern’s flagship, the Southern Belle, is ready to depart New Orleans for Kansas City behind an EMD E6 in…
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A refrigerator car rolls into the bowl of Union Pacific’s North Platte, Nebr., hump yard. The box to the right…
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