Santa Fe’s Barstow Yard
An early-1904s view of the Santa Fe’s big freight yard at Barstow, Calif., shows, at the left side of the…
Read moreAn early-1904s view of the Santa Fe’s big freight yard at Barstow, Calif., shows, at the left side of the…
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Consolidation 2836 steams across a country road at Junction, Ill., with the every-other-day freight between Flora and Shawneetown in September…
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The 2-6-6-2T Mallet, exemplified by Weyerhauser No. 9, was perhaps the ultimate development of the logging locomotive. Compact, powerful, and…
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Rock Island class R-67 Northern 5114 has just passed Joliet (Ill.) Union Station and crossed the GM&O/ATSF diamond as it…
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Characteristic of the indignities suffered by steam in its final years, Reading G-3 Pacific 215, built in 1948 as a…
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Mikados, an 0-8-0, and an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad Consolidation are arrayed around the turntable at Detroit, Toledo & Ironton’s Flat Rock…
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As a crossing watchman stands guard, Reading Camelback 4-6-0 No. 608 brings a Newtown, Pa.–Philadelphia local into Fox Chase station…
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A worker shovels salt into a reefer via a rolling chute at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy’s icing dock in…
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An interior view at Tower 19 near Dallas (Texas) Union Terminal shows the track diagram (“model board”) of the territory…
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New York Central E8 diesels idle at La Salle Street Station, Chicago, awaiting departure with two sections of the 20th…
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A long string of stock cars is tucked in behind Santa Fe 2-8-2 No. 4085 on train 44, the Perishable…
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This is a typical standpipe (also called water crane, water column, or water plug) used to fill steam locomotive tenders…
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