SP “reverse commute” train
In 1958, Southern Pacific SD7 5330 pulls into Santa Clara, Calif., with all-stops train 151, due out of San Jose…
Read moreIn 1958, Southern Pacific SD7 5330 pulls into Santa Clara, Calif., with all-stops train 151, due out of San Jose…
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During a preview trip, members of the press enjoy one of the new parlor-lounge-observation cars the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired from…
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Two Seaboard Coast Line GP40s lead a fast piggyback train through Neuse, N.C., a few miles north of Raleigh on…
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2-8-0 No. 4 of short line Buffalo Creek & Gauley works at Swandale, W.Va., in the early 1960s. After a…
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At Mitchell, Colo., an eastbound freight train is about a mile short of Tennessee Pass on Oct. 5, 1947. In…
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Two Chicago & North Western Pacific-powered commuter trains (“scoots,” in local parlance) unload passengers at the road’s Windy City passenger…
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Pacific 203 leads Western Maryland’s Elkins, W.Va.–Cumberland, Md., local train along the North Branch of the Potomac River near Westernport,…
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A Pennsylvania Railroad Baldwin switcher trundles down Fleet Street in Baltimore en route to the waterfront with an old class…
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A northbound Piedmont & Northern train makes a stop at Belton, S.C., in April 1951. Later that year the road…
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GM’s 1947 Train of Tomorrow consisted of an E7 diesel and four cars, all of which had domes. This is the…
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December 31, 1966, on the Rio Grande finds the east- and westbound Yampa Valley trains meeting at Radium, Colo. Seen…
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Baltimore & Ohio’s Detroit-bound Cincinnatian, just pulling out of Deshler, Ohio, is missing its usual streamlined Pacific on this July…
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