D&H PA on a swing bridge
A PA-powered Delaware & Hudson passenger train crosses a center-bearing plate girder swing bridge on the Canadian Pacific at Lachine,…
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Chicago & North Western 4-6-4 No. 4004, having brought the San Francisco-bound Gold Coast in from Chicago, backs out of Omaha…
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Making like two great pachyderms joined tail to nose, Pennsylvania Railroad J1 2-10-4s 6486 and 6488 doublehead a coal train…
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Mikado No. 14 rides the turntable at the narrow-gauge coal hauler’s headquarters of Orbisonia, Pa., in July 1952. The road…
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A Maine Central E7 leads a northbound train out of the Boston & Maine tunnel under Bellows Falls, Vt., in…
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East Tennessee & Western North Carolina 4-6-0 No. 10 heads a mixed train at Hampton, Tenn., in August 1939. The…
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One of the Lehigh Valley’s 37 4-8-4s — which the road called the Wyoming type — swings around Hetcheltooth Curve…
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Republican presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey waves to the camera during a campaign stop at Providence, R.I., in October 1948.…
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The Santa Fe’s freight depot at Atchison, Kans., is typical of those found in small cities. Inbound boxcars were unloaded…
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On June 8, 1968, at Baltimore, Penn Central GG1s 4901 and 4903 lead a 21-car special train carrying 1,146 people…
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Incorporated in 1899, when the name of western Pennsylvania’s biggest city was spelled without an “h,” the Pittsburg, Shawmut &…
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The Pere Marquette Railway’s 40 Berkshires, built by Lima during 1937–44, were the road’s last and best steam power. In…
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