Challengers on Helmstetter’s Curve
Western Maryland 4-6-6-4s up front and at mid-train lift a freight upgrade around Helmstetter’s Curve in the late 1940s or…
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Western Maryland 4-6-6-4s up front and at mid-train lift a freight upgrade around Helmstetter’s Curve in the late 1940s or…
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In September 1955, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 774 moves through the yard at Bellevue, Ohio, as a Fairbanks-Morse diesel switcher…
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Alco built a total of 190 Century 424 road-switchers during 1963–67. Nearly half went to Canada, and a quarter to…
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Just out of Boston’s North Station, three Boston & Maine trains have crossed the Charles River drawbridges and approach the…
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The 2-10-2 Santa Fe type wasn’t generally known for speed, but Union Pacific 5015 looks like a real racehorse heading…
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Union Pacific introduced the 4-6-6-4 Challenger type in 1936 when it received 15 engines from Alco. UP eventually owned 105…
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A Milwaukee Road trainman peers down the dimly lighted platforms of Chicago Union Station for any late-arriving passengers as the…
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Three yellow-and-red SW9s move a cut of hopper cars out of the coal-cleaning plant at Ringgold, Pa. in the mid-1950s.…
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Pacifics of three different classes are poised to depart the Erie’s Jersey City passenger terminal with outbound commuter trains at…
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Four F7s ease a train of refrigerator cars around one of the many curves on the original line between Supai…
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Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 3608 and 4-8-4 1800 stand at Minturn, Colo., with the eastbound Scenic Limited in summer 1938. R.…
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An usher at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal carries luggage and whistles for a cab at the depot’s taxi stand…
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