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PRR E8 diesels in green
5 days ago·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

PRR E8 diesels in green

Pennsylvania Railroad E8 5767 and a sister bring a westbound train to a halt at Canton, Ohio, in September 1952.…

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Santa Fe on display
6 days ago·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe on display

Santa Fe 4-6-4 3460, the road’s only streamlined steam engine, nicknamed the “Blue Goose,” stands next to an E1 diesel…

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Missabe “Mallet”
Mar 20, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Missabe “Mallet”

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 No. 230 hauls an ore extra through Alborn, Minn., in 1959. Missabe men called…

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Mail on the fly!
Mar 18, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Mail on the fly!

The arm on a New York Central Railway Post Office car has just snatched the bag from the trackside crane.…

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Biplanes and an E3
Mar 17, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Biplanes and an E3

Two biplanes trailing smoke accent a 1939 publicity photo of Florida East Coast’s Jacksonville–Miami Henry M. Flagler, named for the…

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Homefront supply line
Mar 17, 2026·Uncategorized·Trains.com

Homefront supply line

Railroads were the primary means of moving men and materiel within the United States during World War II. Here a…

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Clinchfield Challenger
Mar 16, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Clinchfield Challenger

A Clinchfield Railroad 4-6-6-4 gets under way with a long string of northbound coal hoppers at Ridge, N.C., in 1952.…

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Burlington’s first dome car
Mar 16, 2026·Uncategorized·Trains.com

Burlington’s first dome car

The Burlington Route created the first dome cars by modifying two coaches originally built by Budd in 1940. Silver Dome,…

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Katy freight house in Houston
Mar 12, 2026·Uncategorized·Trains.com

Katy freight house in Houston

Freight terminals had extensive docks for trucks on the nonrail side of the structure. This is the Missouri-Kansas-Texas freight station…

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Black NYC E7 diesels
Mar 11, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Black NYC E7 diesels

New York Central 4003 and a sister E7A wear the road’s short-lived black road-diesel livery as they stand at La…

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