Less-than-carload boxcars in L.A.
Mar 22, 2021

Less-than-carload boxcars in L.A.

Boxcars assigned to less-than-carload (LCL) service — including several Southern Pacific “Overnight” boxcars — are being loaded on parallel tracks…

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Inside GN’s Red River
Mar 18, 2021

Inside GN’s Red River

Great Northern launched its Red River pocket streamliner between Grand Forks, N.Dak., and St. Paul in June 1950, part of…

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B&O freight under wire
Mar 17, 2021

B&O freight under wire

Two GP38s and a GP40 lead a Baltimore & Ohio freight out of Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac’s Potomac Yard in…

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Auto-rack revolution
Mar 16, 2021

Auto-rack revolution

By the early 1960s, railroads began reclaiming auto traffic from highway trucks with long two- and three-level auto racks on…

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Casey at the throttle
Mar 15, 2021

Casey at the throttle

In the only known photo of legendary engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones at the throttle of a locomotive, Jones and…

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Powder River Trickle
Mar 12, 2021

Powder River Trickle

The flood of Powder River Basin coal that became so important to successor Burlington Northern began modestly on NP, with…

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Monon RPO
Mar 11, 2021

Monon RPO

A Railway Express Agency truck, along with a cart with milk cans, transfers express into a messenger car, while in…

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Helper for 13 cars
Dec 30, 2020

Helper for 13 cars

Tacked on behind a boxcar-turned-caboose, one of short line Western Allegheny’s ex-Pennsy H10 2-8-0s helps a sister move coal and…

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