Biggest in Canada
Dec 22, 2021·Photo of the Day

Biggest in Canada

Canadian Pacific 2-10-4 5919 simmers at Field, B.C., before heading east into Kicking Horse Pass with a train. CP’s 2-10-4s…

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Iowa interurban freight
Dec 21, 2021·Photo of the Day

Iowa interurban freight

Locomotive 182 of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern leads a freight train across the Cedar River bridge south of…

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Gas-turbine demonstrator
Dec 17, 2021·Photo of the Day

Gas-turbine demonstrator

Experimental gas-turbine-electric No. 101, built at General Electric’s Erie, Pa., plant in 1948, heads a dynamometer car and a freight…

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Early Conrail at Conway Yard
Dec 16, 2021·Photo of the Day

Early Conrail at Conway Yard

This view inside a hump control tower at Conway Yard, the giant former Pennsylvania Railroad facility on the north bank…

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Past meets future on the L&N
Dec 15, 2021·Photo of the Day

Past meets future on the L&N

Three-decade-old Mikado 1540 stands with spanking new GP7 500 at Louisville & Nashville’s South Louisville Shops in 1951. Jack Fravert…

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Ma & Pa 0-6-0
Dec 14, 2021·Photo of the Day

Ma & Pa 0-6-0

Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 6 gets a spin on the turntable at the beloved little road’s Baltimore roundhouse in…

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Mikado on an M&E train
Dec 13, 2021·Photo of the Day

Mikado on an M&E train

In December 1949, a Burlington Route mail-and-express train rolls west near Keenesburg, Colo., with an express boxcar (a rebuilt troop…

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Bath for a BN E8
Dec 10, 2021·Photo of the Day

Bath for a BN E8

Burlington Northern E8 No. 9900 eases through the wash rack west of Union Avenue interlocking, Chicago, about 1980. Paul D.…

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Preparing a K4
Dec 9, 2021·Photo of the Day

Preparing a K4

At the Pennsylvania’s South Amboy, N.J., engine terminal in the mid-1950s, a hostler shovels coal into the firebox of a…

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B&O 2-8-2 at rest
Dec 7, 2021·Photo of the Day

B&O 2-8-2 at rest

Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 No. 4858 stands with a caboose at the road’s terminal at Cowen, W.Va., in May 1952.…

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