Company service
Aug 6, 2021

Company service

Company service Texas Electric Utilities E25B No. 2304, southbound with coal for Monticello, Texas, in May 1984, represents the first…

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Overland Route
Aug 5, 2021

Overland Route

Overland Route A trim Southern Pacific 4-6-2 makes better than 60 mph with Overland Limited east of Elko, Nev., in…

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‘Shasta Daylight’
Aug 4, 2021

‘Shasta Daylight’

Shasta Daylight The Oakland-bound Shasta Daylight rumbles over the big, curved trestle at Redding, Calif., in mid-1950. The Shasta was…

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Railroad man
Aug 3, 2021

Railroad man

Railroad man Gainesville Midland Railroad conductor L. C. Birchfield is perched in a caboose cupola in the late 1950s. The…

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Rolling fortress
Aug 2, 2021

Rolling fortress

Rolling fortress With two big engines leading a dozen heavyweight cars into the desert, the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited looks…

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Keeping an even keel
Jul 30, 2021

Keeping an even keel

Keeping an even keel It was important for boxcar loads of grain to be level. Sometimes workers had to enter…

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Shortline savior
Jul 28, 2021

Shortline savior

Shortline savior North Carolina’s Laurinburg & Southern was a GE 70-tonner bastion in the Southeast. A pair works Dixie Guano…

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Man at work
Jul 27, 2021

Man at work

Man at work Baltimore & Ohio Dispatcher Carl Donald makes an entry on his trainsheet in DR Tower in Deshler,…

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Ice reefer innovation
Jul 26, 2021

Ice reefer innovation

Ice reefer innovation Attaching a portable precooling motor (right) with a belt to the shaft extension on the generator enabled…

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M-10001
Jul 23, 2021

M-10001

M-10001 In the late 1930s, the Union Pacific’s streamliner M-10001 is serviced between runs in Chicago; although dirty, the streamliner…

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