Return trip to Tucumcari
Tucumcari, July 1963: Nameless Los Angeles–Chicago train 40 has arrived with SP power and will depart behind Rock Island FP7…
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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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Louisville & Nashville E8 No. 787 leads the head-end cars and lone coach of Evansville–St. Louis train 10 out of…
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An E unit leads a train through Berwyn, Ill., on a lazy day in August 1963. Such scenes were part…
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Like many old steam men, PRR engineman W. A. Eby disliked diesels, but he manages a smile in the cab…
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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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Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo’s two ex-NYC J-1e’s were among the Hudsons that captivated a Buffalo boy in the late 1940s.…
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Erie RS2 904 clatters into the Lackawanna’s Hoboken Terminal with a Main Line local in 1956. Richard H. Young Youth…
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On June 15, 1972 — six years before author Olson’s ride on it — Illinois Central Gulf SD40 6000 pulls…
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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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N&W four- and six-motor EMDs rest at Crewe, Va., in 1981, three years after author Siik became acquainted with similar…
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Running left-handed per C&NW practice, E-class Pacific 1634 skirts Lake Monona as she departs Madison with the evening local to…
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