Santa Fe on display
6 days ago

Santa Fe on display

Santa Fe 4-6-4 3460, the road’s only streamlined steam engine, nicknamed the “Blue Goose,” stands next to an E1 diesel…

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Missabe “Mallet”
Mar 20, 2026

Missabe “Mallet”

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 No. 230 hauls an ore extra through Alborn, Minn., in 1959. Missabe men called…

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Mail on the fly!
Mar 18, 2026

Mail on the fly!

The arm on a New York Central Railway Post Office car has just snatched the bag from the trackside crane.…

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Biplanes and an E3
Mar 17, 2026

Biplanes and an E3

Two biplanes trailing smoke accent a 1939 publicity photo of Florida East Coast’s Jacksonville–Miami Henry M. Flagler, named for the…

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Clinchfield Challenger
Mar 16, 2026

Clinchfield Challenger

A Clinchfield Railroad 4-6-6-4 gets under way with a long string of northbound coal hoppers at Ridge, N.C., in 1952.…

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Black NYC E7 diesels
Mar 11, 2026

Black NYC E7 diesels

New York Central 4003 and a sister E7A wear the road’s short-lived black road-diesel livery as they stand at La…

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Meet on the C&IM
Mar 10, 2026

Meet on the C&IM

Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-8-2 550 waits in the siding at Atterbury, Ill., with northbound way freight as the caboose…

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Seaboard caboose crew
Mar 9, 2026

Seaboard caboose crew

The conductor and flagman aboard a Seaboard Air Line caboose work on their paperwork as their train rolls through the…

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