Intermountain interloper
Two of Rio Grande’s Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics spent almost three weeks testing on the New York Central in early 1963. Here…
Read moreTwo of Rio Grande’s Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics spent almost three weeks testing on the New York Central in early 1963. Here…
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Conrail 6070, a former Erie Lackawanna SD45, assists a westbound freight up Pennsylvania’s Horseshoe Curve on July 25, 1981, just…
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Army half-tracks are loaded onto flatcars at an unidentified location during World War II. This image is from the 1943…
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Jumbo 100-ton covered hoppers revolutionized rail handling of grain in the 1960s. The Great Northern staged this publicity photo near…
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PCC car 7352 passes the imposing York Road car house in June 1960; this and six other Baltimore barns were…
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Built in 1910 by Baldwin, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 1485 is one of 23 similar locomotives that operated…
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Armstrong levers – so named because they took some arm strength to move – were used to throw turnouts and…
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The Rio Grande passenger train named Royal Gorge paused for 10 minutes of sightseeing at the bottom of the chasm in the…
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Alco’s distinctive pre-war DL passenger locomotives were styled by industrial designer Otto Kuhler. The diesels also featured a distinct sound,…
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Former Atlantic Coast Line E7 537 was relettered for Seaboard Coast Line following ACL’s mid-1967 merger with Seaboard Air Line.…
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A hostler tops off the fuel tank of an Illinois Central E unit at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal…
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Central Vermont 0-8-0 501 stands by as a New Haven sleeping car is turned on the turntable at St. Albans,…
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