Totally Tubular
A man reads a book on the main level of a Budd-built Tubular coach while people relax in the smoking…
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Six-axle units from three Conrail predecessors mingle at Mingo Junction, Ohio, in April 1976, the month of Big Blue’s creation.…
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Texas & Pacific ended regular steam operations in 1952. When Red River flooding near Boyce, La., became too deep for…
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One of the two Electro-Motive E6A diesels that together were known on the Milwaukee Road as “Famous 15” rests between…
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Montana, Wyoming & Southern 2-8-0 No. 12 poses for a photo as it switches a caboose. The tall-stacked, well-kept Consolidation…
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In 1951 Great Northern received from ACF six remarkable observation-lounge cars to re-equip the Empire Builder. Named for mountains along…
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Louisville & Nashville RS3 150 passes “Big Emma” 2-8-4 1980 at Baileys, Ky., in July 1954. The Berkshire will couple…
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A massive Norfolk & Western class A 2-6-6-4 dwarfs workers in the road’s yard at Roanoke, Va., in 1954. W.…
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In Boston, a two-car train of Metropolitan Transportation Authority PCC cars rounds the loop at Riverside in 1963. G. Mac…
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Lehigh & Hudson River 4-8-2 No. 11 was one of three such engines built by Baldwin in 1944 for the…
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Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 750 gets under way at Bellevue, Ohio, with a westbound freight in September 1955. Philip…
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The commander of a May 1953 U.S. Army troop train out of Fort Meade, Md., confers with a Baltimore &…
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