Long-running success
Sep 1, 2025

Long-running success

Electro-Motive’s four-wheel road-diesel truck, named for the mechanical engineer who designed it, Martin Blomberg, was introduced on the NW3 and…

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Landmark trailing truck
Aug 29, 2025

Landmark trailing truck

The trailing truck for Lima’s 1925 demonstrator locomotive No. 1, the first 2-8-4 Berkshire type, featured four wheels to support…

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Interstate Alco
Aug 28, 2025

Interstate Alco

One of the Interstate Railroad’s ten Alco RS3 diesel locomotives switches hopper cars in the road’s yard at Andover, Virginia,…

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Inside an RPO car
Aug 27, 2025

Inside an RPO car

Few Railway Post Office cars survived the big cuts of 1967. Among the handful that remained was the St. Paul…

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Foggy day at Sherbrooke
Aug 22, 2025

Foggy day at Sherbrooke

In October 1953, a blanket of fog lies over Sherbrooke, Quebec, as Quebec Central G2 4-6-2 2556 awaits departure time…

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Doubleheaded C&O Mallets
Aug 20, 2025

Doubleheaded C&O Mallets

Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 Mallets 1309 and 1302 are departing Scarlet, West Virginia, in June 1950 with a loaded coal…

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South Shore Baldwin
Aug 19, 2025

South Shore Baldwin

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic DRS-6-6-15 road-switcher No. 201 stands with a bulkhead flatcar of pulpwood, a major commodity in…

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