Passengers avail themselves of the swivel seats in one of Great Northern’s 1947 Empire Builder short-haul coaches. These cars had…
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Engine 304 of western New York state short line Dansville & Mount Morris, pictured in September 1955, was built in…
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Handsome Louisville & Nashville 4-8-2 No. 412 stands at the head of Birmingham–Cincinnati train 8 at Louisville Union Station. Charles…
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In 1958, Southern Pacific SD7 5330 pulls into Santa Clara, Calif., with all-stops train 151, due out of San Jose…
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During a preview trip, members of the press enjoy one of the new parlor-lounge-observation cars the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired from…
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Two Seaboard Coast Line GP40s lead a fast piggyback train through Neuse, N.C., a few miles north of Raleigh on…
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2-8-0 No. 4 of short line Buffalo Creek & Gauley works at Swandale, W.Va., in the early 1960s. After a…
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At Mitchell, Colo., an eastbound freight train is about a mile short of Tennessee Pass on Oct. 5, 1947. In…
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Two Chicago & North Western Pacific-powered commuter trains (“scoots,” in local parlance) unload passengers at the road’s Windy City passenger…
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Pacific 203 leads Western Maryland’s Elkins, W.Va.–Cumberland, Md., local train along the North Branch of the Potomac River near Westernport,…
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A Pennsylvania Railroad Baldwin switcher trundles down Fleet Street in Baltimore en route to the waterfront with an old class…
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