Helpers on Helmstetter’s Curve
Two big 2-10-0s cut in as mid-train helpers assist in lifting a train up the Western Maryland main line west…
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger trains: All through June 2024, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of…
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Employees of New Jersey short line Union Transportation Co. use pinch bars and muscle power to move a car of…
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Four GP9s climb west on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line with empty hoppers to be reloaded with coal in…
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Pacific 801 leads Rio Grande train 10, the local from Craig, Colo., to Denver, out of Tunnel 29 east of…
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One of the Chicago & Illinois Midland’s distinctive green-and-red cabooses trails 85 empty coal hoppers heading south at Atterbury, Ill.,…
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Just out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Kansas City Southern E8 leads the Southern Belle past Clara Street tower…
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In the late 1930s and early 1940s the venerable Lehigh Valley streamlined several of its named passenger trains. This is…
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Minneapolis & St. Louis G6-24 class 4-6-0 No. 226, built by Baldwin in 1909, backs a train into Story City,…
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Milwaukee train No. 6, the Morning Hiawatha, passes Tower A20 near Northbrook, Ill., on July 29, 1969. Ahead lies Chicago Union…
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A seven-car Illinois Central Gulf piggyback train heads north through Springfield, Ill., for Chicago in September 1975. At Springfield the…
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