NYC North Country local
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NYC North Country local

New York Central train 175, having come up overnight from New York City, stands at Canton, N.Y., between Watertown and…

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Coast Line operator
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Coast Line operator

Mrs. L. H. McBratney, operator at Atlantic Coast Line’s WG Tower in Florence, S.C., sends a telegraph message during her…

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Daylight along the Pacific
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Daylight along the Pacific

Southern Pacific’s San Francisco–Los Angeles Daylight heads south beside the shimmering Pacific Ocean in the early 1940s. Classic Trains coll. [...]Read…

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Evening at CUT’s roundhouse
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Evening at CUT’s roundhouse

New York Central 4-8-2 3008 looks across the turntable at the Cincinnati Union Terminal roundhouse one evening in September 1954.…

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Family on the Olympian Hiawatha
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Family on the Olympian Hiawatha

Artwork from a brochure promoting the Milwaukee Road’s postwar Olympian Hiawatha shows a family enjoying two double bedrooms en suite in the…

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L&N FP7 on a local
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

L&N FP7 on a local

Louisville & Nashville FP7 571 had not been long out of EMD’s plant at La Grange, Ill., when it breezed…

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Atlantic City-bound Atlantic
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Atlantic City-bound Atlantic

Pennsylvania Railroad E6s 4-4-2 759 stands on the upper level tracks at 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, waiting to depart with…

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B&O’s modern Pittsburgh station
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O’s modern Pittsburgh station

Baltimore & Ohio’s Grant Street Station on the north bank of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh opened in 1957 after…

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Wood-burning Prairie
Sep 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Wood-burning Prairie

The engineer oils the valve gear of Brooks-Scanlon Corp. No. 5, a cabbage-stacked, wood-burning 2-6-2 that hauled forest products in…

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Stored Great Northern power
Sep 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Stored Great Northern power

Five “stored serviceable” steam locomotives occupy a track outside the Great Northern roundhouse at Kelly Lake, Minn., the home terminal…

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Troop train kitchen car
Sep 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Troop train kitchen car

The cook on a Korean War-era troop train out of Fort George G. Meade, Md., stokes the kitchen car’s coal…

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