WM diesels for smoke abatement
Two Western Maryland F3s haul a 2-10-0 and its train on the outskirts of Baltimore. The diesels were on the…
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One of the last big-city stations to be built was Toledo Central Union Terminal, completed in 1950. Owned by New…
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The Rock Island used a variety of diesel power on its Chicago suburban trains, but Alco RS3s predominated. In 1966,…
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New York Central 4-8-4 Niagara 6023 is near the end of its short life as it rambles through Millbury Junction,…
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Westinghouse and partner Baldwin fielded an experimental 4,000 h.p. B-B+B-B gas-turbine-electric in 1950. Dubbed the “Blue Goose” because of its…
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Two Pennsylvania Railroad P5a electrics roll northward with a freight at Halethorpe, Md., in the 1940s. Early P5a’s had box-cab…
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Burlington Route 4-8-4 No. 5621 on a westbound freight clatters across the Illinois Central diamonds at Mendota, Ill., as it…
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The New York–Miami Silver Meteor heels to a curve near Sebring, Fla., on March 30, 1970, nearly 3 years after…
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In the early 1950s, two E8s ease New York Central train 24, the Knickerbocker, out of St. Louis Union Station…
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Pennsylvania Railroad P5a electric 4737 brings a freight into Philadelphia from the west after a heavy snowfall in early 1958.…
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Illinois Central’s first streamliner, delivered in 1936, was the Green Diamond, a fully articulated aluminum train built by Pullman-Standard and…
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Well into the 1950s, the Nickel Plate Road believed its superb 2-8-4 Berkshires to be better than diesels for its…
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