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An eastbound Rock Island freight, led by a red-and-black F unit trio — FT A-B 99/99B plus an F2 —…
Read moreAn eastbound Rock Island freight, led by a red-and-black F unit trio — FT A-B 99/99B plus an F2 —…
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Santa Fe’s Golden Gate, a secondary Bay Area train, pulls into Merced, Calif., in May 1958 as a tour group prepares…
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Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 No. 2929, last of 20 class F1a Jubilee types received from Canadian Locomotive Co. in 1937–38, sits…
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This 1949 view of the erecting floor at EMD shows a 567 diesel engine, generator (on the deck at the…
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At the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines station in Cape May, N.J., an RDC1 and Pennsy E6 Atlantic No. 645 share the…
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At Pittsburgh in 1956, a Pennsylvania Railroad SW1 switches cars on the “Panhandle” side of the station as passenger trains…
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A GP9 and RS11 work in Crookston, Minn., on Aug. 15, 1969. Northern Pacific went from hauling 35 percent of…
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The joint Southern Pacific-Union Pacific-Chicago & North Western City of San Francisco crosses the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake. Introduced…
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Great Northern 434 was one of the road’s 14 F45 freight diesels. Built in 1969, they carried GN’s “Big Sky…
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On June 6, 1956, one of Chesapeake & Ohio’s 60 collossal Lima 2-6-6-6 Allegheny types is westbound at Handley, W.Va.,…
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Servicing a CN 4-8-4 The engineer and fireman in the cab of Canadian National 4-8-4 6179 wait for men on…
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An Erie Railroad 2-8-4 Berkshire type leads a train of refrigerator cars over Starrucca Viaduct, on the road’s main line…
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