Missabe passenger train
May 16, 2022

Missabe passenger train

Plow-equipped Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 4-6-2 1110 waits to depart Virginia, Minn., with train 14 for Iron Junction and…

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Last word in NYC Mohawks
May 13, 2022

Last word in NYC Mohawks

New York Central class L-4 3137 brings the Queen City from Detroit into Cincinnati Union Terminal in September 1954. The…

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Hudson at Harmon
May 10, 2022

Hudson at Harmon

New York Central J-1 4-6-4 5249 eases off the turntable at Harmon, N.Y., the point 33 miles up the Hudson…

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EL freights meet
May 6, 2022

EL freights meet

Erie Lackawanna’s hottest freight trains, eastbound NE-74 (left, powered by SD45s) and westbound CX-99, meet on former Erie trackage beside…

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Burlington suburban coach
May 4, 2022

Burlington suburban coach

The 124 open-platform coaches the Burlington Route used in Chicago–Downers Grove–Aurora commuter service were Spartan conveyances. No. 7165 stands between…

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Big Emma on empties
May 3, 2022

Big Emma on empties

Louisville & Nashville class M-1 2-8-4 No. 1950 — a “Big Emma” — rolls empty coal hopper cars at Hargett,…

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A Pennsy super Pacific
May 2, 2022

A Pennsy super Pacific

Pennsylvania Railroad 5698, one of the road’s two class K5 4-6-2s, heads an unidentified passenger train south on the Northern…

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