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Rock Island TA diesel Electro-Motive Corp.’s model TA passenger diesel of 1937 was a lighter, less powerful counterpart to the…
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Rock Island TA diesel Electro-Motive Corp.’s model TA passenger diesel of 1937 was a lighter, less powerful counterpart to the…
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Several packing houses were located in close proximity to each other along the Santa Fe in Placentia, Calif. Styles varied…
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Baldwin built this 0-8-0 for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, a Chicago & North Western affiliate better known…
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Signode introduced its first single-use paper grain door in 1948. Prior to that innovation, wooden boards were used. The remnants…
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On May 1, 1971, Amtrak Passenger Service Rep Patty Saunders, who once was a Seaboard Coast Line hostess, poses with…
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Just after the turn of the 20th century, large terminal elevators began to appear. Grain gathered in these mammoth concrete…
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Roundhouses were filled with life, from steam locomotives to the workers who maintained them. This is a 2-8-2 in the…
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Pennsylvania K4s 4-6-2 No. 5399, built at the railroad’s Juniata shops in 1923, was rebuilt by Lima in 1939 with…
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An A-B set of drawbar-connected Boston & Maine EMD FTs (in Boston in March 1950) shows the distinctive four-porthole styling…
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Chesapeake & Ohio H-8 2-6-6-6 No. 1647 departs Handley, W.Va., with tidewater coal — a dozen 67-inch driving wheels, 90…
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Orange crates are stacked on end in two layers, with a third horizontal layer. The top of the load is…
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