Wood-burning Prairie
The engineer oils the valve gear of Brooks-Scanlon Corp. No. 5, a cabbage-stacked, wood-burning 2-6-2 that hauled forest products in…
Read moreThe engineer oils the valve gear of Brooks-Scanlon Corp. No. 5, a cabbage-stacked, wood-burning 2-6-2 that hauled forest products in…
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Five “stored serviceable” steam locomotives occupy a track outside the Great Northern roundhouse at Kelly Lake, Minn., the home terminal…
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The cook on a Korean War-era troop train out of Fort George G. Meade, Md., stokes the kitchen car’s coal…
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Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 3530 is near Pleasant Valley, Idaho, with time freight 655 in the late 1940s or early ’50s.…
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In September 1954, New York Central 2-8-2 1305 wades through the weeds on a branch line extending from East Alton…
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A dramatic nighttime photo shows an oil train on the Erie Railroad during World War II, when German submarines menaced…
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A Railway Post Office clerk looks out from a doorway during a stop at Waterloo, Iowa, in April 1967. The…
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Santa Fe Railway No. 3895, a 2-10-2 Santa Fe type named for the road that originated the wheel arrangement, hauls…
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No. 9806 is one of Chicago River & Indiana’s 21 800 h.p. Lima-Hamilton switchers, built in 1951. The little road’s…
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Western Maryland three-truck Shay No. 6 works a coal plant on the Chaffee (W.Va.) Branch not long after delivery in…
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Conceived in 1907 as an interurban line, Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern never did electrify. In the diesel era, MN&S favored…
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Milwaukee Road’s westbound Morning Hiawatha pauses at Portage, Wis., in October 1965. Tucked behind the E units are several head-end cars, including…
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