Raceland Junction
Jul 6, 2025

Raceland Junction

In a March 1942 scene at Raceland Junction, La., on Southern Pacific’s Texas & New Orleans subsidiary, 4-6-2 No. 612…

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Proud passenger power
Jul 4, 2025

Proud passenger power

Three Southern Railway E8s curve through Atlanta with the New Orleans cars of the Southern Crescent, running in two sections this…

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Nickel Plate diesels
Jul 3, 2025

Nickel Plate diesels

The Nickel Plate Road’s road-switcher scheme of black with three yellow stripes, plus yellow safety stripes on the ends, was…

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Mountain meet — Pennsy
Jul 2, 2025

Mountain meet — Pennsy

Pennsylvania Railroad GP9s on westbound piggyback train TT1 pass J1 class 2-10-4 No. 6166, which has stopped on the main…

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Mountain meet
Jul 1, 2025

Mountain meet

Westbound and eastbound Western Star streamliners meet along Whitefish Lake near Whitefish, Mont., in the 1950s. Great Northern photo [...]Read More...

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MoPac Northerns
Jun 30, 2025

MoPac Northerns

Two 4-8-4s, Baldwin products of 1943, lead a westbound freight with a long string of open hoppers through Sandy Hook,…

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McCloud might
Jun 27, 2025

McCloud might

A McCloud River Railroad freight rolls thought Bartle, Calif., in July 1983. Lead unit No. 39 is the road’s sole…

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Labor intensive
Jun 26, 2025

Labor intensive

Labor intensive Hundred-pound sacks of flour are stacked in a single-sheathed Rock Island boxcar at Minneapolis in 1939. The paper…

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Innovation ended
Jun 25, 2025

Innovation ended

Hundreds of small towns had piggyback ramps through the 1960s, as seen here on the Minneapolis & St. Louis in…

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Homemade muscle
Jun 24, 2025

Homemade muscle

Norfolk & Western Y6 2-8-8-2 No. 2130, one of the road’s distinctive homegrown designs, works near Elliston, Va., 20 miles…

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Grain-hauling boxcars
Jun 23, 2025

Grain-hauling boxcars

A string of single-sheathed boxcars awaits coopering at an elevator on the Milwaukee Road in Sisseton, S.Dak., in 1939. Single-sheathed…

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Georgia Steam
Jun 20, 2025

Georgia Steam

Gainesville Midland 2-8-0 No. 301 switches at Gainesville, Ga., in the 1950s. The two-story building above its stack is the…

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