Nickel Plate Berks
Oct 30, 2023

Nickel Plate Berks

Nickel Plate Road Berkshires pose at Bellevue, Ohio. The 772 was built in 1949 for NKP proper, while 802 is…

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Milwaukee monolith
Oct 27, 2023

Milwaukee monolith

Terminal elevators on lakes and rivers feature rail unloading on the inland side, lots of rail storage tracks, and loading…

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Herington pusher
Oct 26, 2023

Herington pusher

Rock Island train 39 heads west from Kansas City, Kans., on UP trackage rights (as far as Topeka) on March…

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Frisco forsaken
Oct 25, 2023

Frisco forsaken

Scrapping a steam locomotive was a relatively simple matter. Workers at Sheffield Steel in Kansas City just started at the…

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Fireman’s view
Oct 24, 2023

Fireman’s view

Thanks to a friendly crew, here is the Indiana countryside between Kokomo and Elwood as seen from the cab of…

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Faded glory
Oct 23, 2023

Faded glory

Its paint and glory faded, Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Alco DL109 No. 271 rests on a siding along the Indiana…

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Elusive editor
Oct 20, 2023

Elusive editor

Trains magazine Editor David P. Morgan watches the head end of a Southern Pacific freight pull out of the center siding…

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Cowboy state conveyance
Oct 19, 2023

Cowboy state conveyance

Workers fuel and exchange mail on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train 29, known informally as the “Night Crawler,” at Casper,…

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Continental Grain Co.
Oct 18, 2023

Continental Grain Co.

The Continental elevator at Milwaukee, shown in 1986, had a capacity of 3.1 million bushels. Located on a Lake Michigan…

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Coal country cooperation
Oct 17, 2023

Coal country cooperation

Pittsburgh & West Virginia and Wheeling & Lake Erie engines and crews ran through between Brewster, Ohio, and Rook, Pa.…

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Capitol capture
Oct 16, 2023

Capitol capture

On a frigid December 30, 1948, two Chicago & North Western E units leave Madison, Wis., with a Chicago-bound mail-and-express…

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