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The truss bracing in the sides of cab units helped support the locomotive’s weight, so cab units required a thinner…
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The truss bracing in the sides of cab units helped support the locomotive’s weight, so cab units required a thinner…
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Louisville & Nashville’s Hummingbird passes between the engine terminal and coach yard as it backs towards New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in…
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Santa Fe 2-10-2 No. 1680 assists the 15 passenger cars and three diesels on train No. 19, the Chief, at Wootton,…
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A General Electric U25B leads EMD, Alco, and Fairbanks-Morse units on Norfolk & Western train KB6 near Hull, Ill., in…
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Pennsylvania Railroad M1 class 4-8-2 No. 6987 heads a freight toward Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa., in July 1955. The…
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St. Louis-San Francisco 4-8-2 No. 1503 works train No. 3 at Southeastern Junction just west of Lindenwood Yard southwest of…
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Baltimore & Ohio train No. 355, the Toledo–Cincinnati day local, passes under the home signals protecting the road’s Chicago Division…
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Fairbanks-Morse introduced its “Consolidation Line” of freight and passenger diesels in 1950. Available in cab and booster versions rated at…
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At Bayview Junction, Ontario, trackmen watch Canadian National 4-8-4 No. 6234 pass with Toronto–Windsor train No. 83 on August 29,…
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Pacific 208 leads Western Maryland’s daily passenger train between Elkins, W.Va., and Cumberland, Md., around one of the many sharp…
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A New York Central RS3 has a healthy seven cars in tow as it heads down the west shore of…
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An elderly man looks out from the concourse of recently completed Toledo Central Union Terminal. New York Central built the…
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