Serving the president of the Katy
The Katy-Frisco Texas Special, a favorite conveyance for the Katy president’s business car, arrives in St. Louis in 1956. Fred…
Read moreThe Katy-Frisco Texas Special, a favorite conveyance for the Katy president’s business car, arrives in St. Louis in 1956. Fred…
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SP 4229, the cab-forward on which author Anderson was firing as the second engine of a doubleheader when lead engine…
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Five years after author Dow’s Bangor & Aroostook experience, in March 1955, a 103-car freight waits at snowy West Seboois,…
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Models posed in the lounge of a Milwaukee Road Skytop sleeper-observation car appear to be better behaved than some of…
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This story was related to me by those personally involved in a new but somewhat less-than-satisfactory method of unloading sand.…
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Santa Fe 2-8-2 3243 climbs west toward Summit, Calif., in 1952. Chard Walker In the early 1940s, when steam locomotives…
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West of Huntington, Ind., on the Erie Lackawanna, in March 1976, an EL U25B and GP35 back down to an…
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Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3760, author Elwood’s “bad luck” engine, leads the second section of the Grand Canyon west near…
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In October 1953, about the time author Les Clark was a fireman here, a Union Pacific freight climbs the grade…
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B&O men pose with Baldwin switcher 428, the first diesel on the mixed train to Ripley, W.Va., in late 1953.…
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Bought from a pawnshop when the author was a boy, this Hamilton Railway Special 992 watch passed many an official…
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Firemen on oil-burners like SP 4-8-2 4360 at Pinole, Calif., had to be sure the fuel was not too hot,…
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