Oakland Pier
Oakland Pier The California Zephyr’s signature sleeper-observation-dome car, complete with neon tail sign, gleams in Southern Pacific’s Oakland Pier station…
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Oakland Pier The California Zephyr’s signature sleeper-observation-dome car, complete with neon tail sign, gleams in Southern Pacific’s Oakland Pier station…
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Scenic views Curved windows along the edge of the roof give the Santa Fe El Capitan’s Hi-Level lounges a bright,…
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Shipping container New York Central (and subsidiary Michigan Central) had a large fleet of steel auto cars by the early…
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Center of commerce A Pennsylvania Railroad Geep pulls a string of express cars in front of railroad’s Polk Street freight…
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Mixed train Internal stairways on some of the Sant Fe’s Hi-Level cars enable them to operate with single-level equipment. Here,…
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‘Broadway’ interrupted Pennsylvania Railroad K4s Pacific 5369 pauses with the eastbound Broadway Limited at Englewood Union Station on Chicago’s South…
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Safety first Tethered at the waist to the car for safety, a mine employee rides a string of coal hoppers…
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Serving Chicago Chicago & North Western’s sprawling freight house at Proviso was located away from the city of Chicago, taking…
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‘Seatrain Georgia’ The hull configuration of the Seatrain ships—three decks, each with four tracks (plus four tracks on the top…
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Perishable progress The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rebuilt older wood refrigerator cars with steel sides instead of buying new…
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Quebec winter In February 1954, a Canadian Pacific light Pacific on a westbound local freight pants in the siding by…
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