Illinois Central SD40 6000
I have always had a thing for “class units,” that is, the first in a series, and “my engine”…
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While growing up in Cleveland and Buffalo after World War II, a close encounter with a 4-6-4 Hudson-type locomotive…
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Lucius Beebe was a major figure in railroad literature and photography for nearly three decades, but contemporary readers might be…
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A particular run of the Kansas City-Florida Special may have changed the course of steam locomotive assignments on the Frisco.…
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Steamtown National Historic Site, once known as Steamtown USA, has a captivating history. Its journey from one man’s vision in…
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Railroad dome cars are a gleaming symbol of postwar passenger train status. The streamliner era in North America…
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At the turn of the 20th century, the citizens and serving railroads of Kansas City, Mo., yearned to revamp…
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I have a personal connection with a Budd-built Vista-Dome. In November 2018, my old friend and President and co-owner…
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Typical of their brethren everywhere, even a century after the fact many railroaders still called certain southern Michigan branchline…
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In 1931-32, Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles T. Ripley applied his European experience, along with his work on steam motorcar…
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There is always the story of the locomotive that got away. For years back in the late 1960s, whenever…
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When the long-anticipated “Hill Lines” merger finally created the Burlington Northern on March 2, 1970, it was time not…
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