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Swift & Co. had a large soybean processing plant on the Nickel Plate Road at Frankfort, Ind. In this 1946…
Read moreSwift & Co. had a large soybean processing plant on the Nickel Plate Road at Frankfort, Ind. In this 1946…
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Eastern Gas & Fuel’s modern Wharton No. 2 mine southwest of Barrett, W.Va., will load 105 hoppers, including subject C&O…
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Santa Fe FT No. 100 was not only the railroad’s first mainline freight diesel, but part of the first order…
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New EMD F40PH diesels lead the westbound San Francisco Zephyr east of Denver in June 1981. Amtrak acquired more than 200 such…
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Seaboard Coast Line Alco C628 No. 2201 leads a mixed consist of locomotives at Colliers Yard near Petersburg, Pa., waiting…
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The 2-10-4 wheel arrangement, the “Texas type,” originated with a modified Santa Fe 2-10-2 — No. 3829, built by Baldwin…
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In fall 1942, Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-6-0 No. 331 heads for Story City, Iowa, northwest from Minerva Junction and…
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Mountains and rivers defined the scenic attraction of the Northern Pacific. Here, an A-B-B-A set of F units leads a…
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Northern Pacific L-9 class 0-6-0s 1082 and 1126 pause between work at Aberdeen, Wash., on a rare sunny day in…
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Surrounded by the new wave of motive power, a Boston & Maine worker rests at Boston’s Charlestown engine terminal in…
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Culver Tower in Muscatine, Iowa, guarded the junction of Milwaukee Road and Rock Island main lines on the southwest side…
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The New Haven was a pioneer in hauling common-carrier trailers. Here, a solid cut of piggyback cars passes Cos Cob,…
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