Past meets future on the L&N
Dec 15, 2021

Past meets future on the L&N

Three-decade-old Mikado 1540 stands with spanking new GP7 500 at Louisville & Nashville’s South Louisville Shops in 1951. Jack Fravert…

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Ma & Pa 0-6-0
Dec 14, 2021

Ma & Pa 0-6-0

Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 6 gets a spin on the turntable at the beloved little road’s Baltimore roundhouse in…

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Mikado on an M&E train
Dec 13, 2021

Mikado on an M&E train

In December 1949, a Burlington Route mail-and-express train rolls west near Keenesburg, Colo., with an express boxcar (a rebuilt troop…

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Bath for a BN E8
Dec 10, 2021

Bath for a BN E8

Burlington Northern E8 No. 9900 eases through the wash rack west of Union Avenue interlocking, Chicago, about 1980. Paul D.…

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Preparing a K4
Dec 9, 2021

Preparing a K4

At the Pennsylvania’s South Amboy, N.J., engine terminal in the mid-1950s, a hostler shovels coal into the firebox of a…

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B&O 2-8-2 at rest
Dec 7, 2021

B&O 2-8-2 at rest

Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 No. 4858 stands with a caboose at the road’s terminal at Cowen, W.Va., in May 1952.…

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Remnant of a dream
Dec 6, 2021

Remnant of a dream

The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient was conceived to connect Kansas City with the nearest Pacific Ocean port — Topolobampo,…

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Oklahoma troop train
Nov 30, 2021

Oklahoma troop train

Oklahoma troop train Santa Fe 4-6-2 1311 rolls east with a 13-car troop train near Quinlan, Okla., on Mar. 16,…

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