Wartime in Washington
In a scene typical of World War II-era train travel, passengers stream off Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania trains at…
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Three locomotives – a 2-8-2, 2-8-8-2, and 4-8-4 – start the Rio Grande’s eastbound Royal Gorge out of Minturn, Colo.,…
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Grand Trunk Western GP38-2 5849 is a fairly typical example of the more than 2,200 of the four-axle road units…
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At Fort George G. Meade, Md., the porter assigned to the rear Pullman of a troop train watches as supplies…
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Santa Fe train 100, the Los Angeles–Chicago Super C, climbs the west side of Cajon Pass with four Flexi-Van containers and…
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In May 1952, Chicago & Illinois Midland 4-4-0 500 simmers at Oakford, Ill., as crewmen investigate a problem with one…
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A Chicago & North Western Baldwin switcher begins pulling cars from the “potato yard” in Chicago as an icing truck…
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Transporting finished automobiles in boxcars was inefficient, causing railroads to lose business to highway carriers. Before the development of two-…
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Beginning in 1964, the Rio Grande began attaching a car or two of piggyback trailers to the rear of the…
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A Pacific Fruit Express mechanical car stands out among Santa Fe and PFE 40-foot ice-bunker cars in this early 1960s…
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The fireman of Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 4913 has descended the cab-side ladder to snag a train-order hoop from the operator…
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This Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 is an oil-burner — note the lack of an open coal bunker on the tender. The…
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