Pride of the Pennsy
Sep 9, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Pride of the Pennsy

The westbound Broadway Limited is just a few miles from its destination as it pauses at Englewood Union Station on the South…

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Prairie tanks for the Doughboys
Sep 8, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Prairie tanks for the Doughboys

At least eight 60-centimeter-guage 2-6-2Ts of the type used by the U.S. Army on temporary railways in France during World…

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Mount Clare makes a Mountain
Sep 5, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Mount Clare makes a Mountain

Between 1942 and ’48, Baltimore & Ohio’s Mount Clare shops in Baltimore created 40 essentially new dual-service 4-8-2s. The class…

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Mohawk at Waterloo
Sep 4, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Mohawk at Waterloo

New York Central 4-8-2 2952 storms through Waterloo, Indiana, 367 miles west of Buffalo, with a westbound freight in 1948.…

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Long-running success
Sep 1, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Long-running success

Electro-Motive’s four-wheel road-diesel truck, named for the mechanical engineer who designed it, Martin Blomberg, was introduced on the NW3 and…

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Landmark trailing truck
Aug 29, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Landmark trailing truck

The trailing truck for Lima’s 1925 demonstrator locomotive No. 1, the first 2-8-4 Berkshire type, featured four wheels to support…

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Interstate Alco
Aug 28, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Interstate Alco

One of the Interstate Railroad’s ten Alco RS3 diesel locomotives switches hopper cars in the road’s yard at Andover, Virginia,…

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Inside an RPO car
Aug 27, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Inside an RPO car

Few Railway Post Office cars survived the big cuts of 1967. Among the handful that remained was the St. Paul…

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