Crisis at the coal chute!
The engineer of Canadian National 2-8-2 3503 enjoys the breeze as he hurries a freight east at Lorne Park, Ont.,…
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The engineer of Canadian National 2-8-2 3503 enjoys the breeze as he hurries a freight east at Lorne Park, Ont.,…
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A pair of Rock Island BL2s, with an F7B between them, led the “Fat Stock Special” one night in 1956.…
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An old GE doodlebug provided passenger services on the Apalachicola Northern in the 1940s. Classic Trains coll. I’m clutching the…
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Although author Dinsmore’s territory was some 1,500 miles to the west, this 1966 scene inside Northern Pacific’s depot in South…
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Russell Tedder’s 16-hour 70-tonner ride occurred in July 1955, when he was dispatching for the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf…
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New York Central S3 No. 9363 stands on the West Side line in Manhattan in 1967. Thirteen years earlier and…
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Baldwin road-switcher 1615 passes the Hertford, N.C., depot with Norfolk Southern freight 88 in January 1965. A few months later,…
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Before starting their seven-stop trek to Providence, the two Alco PAs on New Haven train 531 prepare to follow the…
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A steel mill at night, like this one in the Pittsburgh area, was an unforgettable sight. Baltimore & Ohio At…
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Santa Fe PA No. 61, whose long nose may have saved its crew 14 years later, in 1951 flies green…
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A hot-metal “bottle car,” one of three in an Erie train that included eight hopper cars as spacers, passes DeForest…
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Empty refrigerator cars race across the Union Pacific in Nebraska in the early ’50s. A UP conductor in Idaho talked…
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