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A crowd has gathered in Savannah, Ga., for the July 6, 1947, christening of Central of Georgia’s new streamliner, the…
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A crowd has gathered in Savannah, Ga., for the July 6, 1947, christening of Central of Georgia’s new streamliner, the…
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A mail-and-express train running as the second section of Santa Fe train 20 descends Edelstein Hill west of Chillicothe, Ill.,…
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Southern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 2248, built in 1896, remained active into the 1950s providing motive power and pumping capacity for…
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Texas & Pacific was the first road to adopt the 2-10-4 type, hence the name “Texas” for the wheel arrangement.…
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Seen from the cab of an Alco PA on the eastbound California Zephyr, four F units head up the westbound…
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A Chicago-bound local of interurban Chicago Aurora & Elgin prepares to leave the Wheaton station. The first car is one…
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Seen from a troop train out of Fort Meade, Md., Baltimore & Ohio 4-6-2 5316, formerly named President Grant, hurries…
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Louisville & Nashville M-1 2-8-4 1954 (a “Big Emma”) pushes behind the caboose of a northbound coal train on the…
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A Baltimore & Ohio P-7 Pacific has the Detroit–Baltimore Ambassador in tow as it crosses famous Thomas Viaduct at Relay,…
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Diesel locomotive 9901, named Zephyrus, leads Burlington Route’s Twin Zephyr into Aurora, Ill., about 38 miles into the streamliner’s Chicago–Minneapolis run sometime in…
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This 1950s overview of the West Side Lumber Co. car shops in Tuolumne, Calif., shows the dual-gauge track with the…
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The 3-foot-gauge East Broad Top had two standard-gauge 0-6-0s to switch the dual-gauge yard at Mount Union, Pa., where EBT…
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