Great Northern ‘Mountain’-series observation car
Appekunny Mountain was one of six deep-windowed observation-lounge cars built by ACF for Great Northern’s “Mid-Century Empire Builder.” Wallace W.…
Read moreAppekunny Mountain was one of six deep-windowed observation-lounge cars built by ACF for Great Northern’s “Mid-Century Empire Builder.” Wallace W.…
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This little 0-4-2T worked in building the Alaska Railroad, then went on to serve two logging operations along the line.…
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A crewman on Virginia Blue Ridge 2-8-0 No. 6 (ex-Southern 385) coaxes a cow off the track at Tye River,…
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The Rio Grande equipped both ends of the Moffat Tunnel with high-pressure car-washing sprayers to clean windows in preparation for…
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In a 1957 view from a crossing watchman’s tower at Burlington, Ont., elderly Canadian National 2-8-0 2647 passes in heavy…
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Baltimore & Ohio class EM-1 2-8-8-4 7620 crests Newburg Grade in West Virginia with eastbound coal in 1948. William P.…
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An A-B-A set of F units departs San Francisco with Southern Pacific train 372, the piggyback-heavy Advance Overnight for Los…
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Baltimore & Ohio No. 9 is one of four class C-16 0-4-0T switchers built in 1912 to work tight-radius street…
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A 4-8-4 leads a freight east across the Lackawanna Railroad’s colossal Pequest Fill. At more than 3 miles long, Pequest…
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In a scene far removed from today’s unit and intermodal trains, a small boy watches as a shipment is loaded…
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Pennsylvania E7A 5901, one of the units constituting the big road’s first passenger diesel, teams up with an E7B and…
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Amtrak E60CH 966 on the Washington-bound Murray Hill has become disabled just south of Bowie, Md., on March 26, 1976.…
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