End of two eras
Two E8As and an E7B lead NYC 26, the 20th Century Limited, eastbound at VIckers, Ohio, on a summer evening…
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CP Consolidation 3422, pictured at North Bay, Ont., in October 1954, was among the engines author Quastler came to know…
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Big EM-1 2-8-8-4s congregate at the Benwood, Ohio, engine terminal in August 1957, a decade after author Tanner was a…
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The boiler explosion at Serra, Calif., that destroyed Mikado 3199 and killed its watchman took the classic form of such…
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Heavy Mikado of the Muskogee Group poses on the turntable at Muskogee, Okla., in August 1950. Joe Collias photo In…
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With the Chicago skyline in the background, Illinois Central’s Panama Limited pulls into Central Station to load passengers in a…
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The sight of an approaching Seaboard E7 signaled adventure: a boy’s first train ride. Wiley M. Bryan I don’t know…
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A Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 leads a troop train east through California in 1946. George M. Speir In early May 1945,…
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Kansas City Southern E8 No. 26 races north of Heavener, Okla., with the Kansas City-bound Southern Belle on December 30,…
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B&OCT 0-8-0 1703 hauls a string of cars from Grand Central Station, Chicago, to B&O’s Robey Street coachyard. Robert A.…
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