Nighttime at North Platte
This view from 1950 looks eastward from the hump of Union Pacific’s newly expanded yard at North Platte, Nebr. Wallace…
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A four-unit set of FT diesels leads a 125-car Burlington Route freight west at Galesburg, Ill., in June 1953. R.…
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Two Gulf, Mobile & Ohio E7 diesels bring the St. Louis–Chicago Alton Limited into the station at Springfield, Ill., in May 1952.…
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At Wheaton, Ill., the motorman of a westbound Chicago Aurora & Elgin train looks back for the highball while the…
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Penn Central and Santa Fe teamed up to provide coast-to-coast transport of containers for Seatrain Lines in August 1972. Here,…
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Southern Pacific built this structure, which it called Grand Central Station, in Houston in 1934 to replace an 1886 depot.…
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Union Pacific No. 51, the first unit in the road’s fleet of General Electric gas-turbine-electric locomotives, climbs east in Weber…
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As Southern Pacific Alco PA diesels move toward New Orleans Union Station in the background, an Illinois Central E7 rides…
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Rio Grande Southern Motor No. 4 — one of seven “Galloping Goose” cars the 172-mile narrow-gauge road fashioned from automobiles…
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Passengers avail themselves of the swivel seats in one of Great Northern’s 1947 Empire Builder short-haul coaches. These cars had…
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Engine 304 of western New York state short line Dansville & Mount Morris, pictured in September 1955, was built in…
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Handsome Louisville & Nashville 4-8-2 No. 412 stands at the head of Birmingham–Cincinnati train 8 at Louisville Union Station. Charles…
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