Overland Route
Overland Route A trim Southern Pacific 4-6-2 makes better than 60 mph with Overland Limited east of Elko, Nev., in…
Read moreOverland Route A trim Southern Pacific 4-6-2 makes better than 60 mph with Overland Limited east of Elko, Nev., in…
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Shasta Daylight The Oakland-bound Shasta Daylight rumbles over the big, curved trestle at Redding, Calif., in mid-1950. The Shasta was…
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Union Pacific Challengers in service were one of the great sights of American railroading in the 1940s and 1950s, when…
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Railroad man Gainesville Midland Railroad conductor L. C. Birchfield is perched in a caboose cupola in the late 1950s. The…
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Rolling fortress With two big engines leading a dozen heavyweight cars into the desert, the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited looks…
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Keeping an even keel It was important for boxcar loads of grain to be level. Sometimes workers had to enter…
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Cab-forward conveyance A puff of oil smoke hangs in the air over Truckee as AC 4-8-8-2 No. 4185 gets the…
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Shortline savior North Carolina’s Laurinburg & Southern was a GE 70-tonner bastion in the Southeast. A pair works Dixie Guano…
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Man at work Baltimore & Ohio Dispatcher Carl Donald makes an entry on his trainsheet in DR Tower in Deshler,…
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Ice reefer innovation Attaching a portable precooling motor (right) with a belt to the shaft extension on the generator enabled…
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Getting grain to market A truck dumps its load of wheat through the floor grate into the bin at an…
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