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“Big, beautiful” Santa Fe 4-8-4 3779 talks it up through Pasadena’s Lamanda Park area with First No. 3, the California…
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With the empty SP track to the right, SP&S RS3 78 trundles past with a short freight at Albany, Ore.,…
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With engineer Steiner at the throttle of Nickel Plate Road 893, fireman Jennings shows photographer Lewis the coal scoop, which…
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A Reading I-8sb 2-8-0, standard freight power on the road’s Wilmington & Northern branch, is a long way from that…
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Looking not unlike Miss Hazen’s train 719, an unidentified Bay Head local rockets out of South Amboy behind Pennsy K4…
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On a hot summer night in the early 1960s, Rock Island E3 626 stands at Waterloo, Iowa, with train 190.…
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Author Hartley finally caught up with the elusive New Haven FA’s in Boston. Allan G. Hartley The New Haven Railroad…
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Southern Pacific 2-10-2 3757 rests at Sparks, Nev., in 1948. J. F. Larison I went firing on the Southern Pacific’s…
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To our family, the ultimate train was not the Broadway, the 20th Century, or the exalted Dominion that plied our…
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On a hot afternoon in August 1960, the year before the author began his Erie employment there, five Alco cab…
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In 1942, for a boy seeking brand-new road power, old Reading Camelback 0-6-0 1323 was nothing special—but would that we…
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