N&W class A ready to go
Jun 13, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

N&W class A ready to go

Norfolk & Western class A No. 1239 is ready to depart Roanoke, Va., with eastbound time freight 84 in 1954.…

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L&N Pacific departing Louisville
Jun 12, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

L&N Pacific departing Louisville

Louisville & Nashville engine 243, a USRA light Pacific, passes Highland Park on the south side of Louisville with train…

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Illinois Central express reefer
Jun 11, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Illinois Central express reefer

Illinois Central car 4840, pictured near Central Station, Chicago, is one of 35 standard wood refrigerator cars the road converted…

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Pure Vermont
Jun 7, 2024·Photo Of The Day·Trains Magazine

Pure Vermont

Vermont railroading The State of Vermont purchased 177 miles of the former Rutland Railroad in 1963, two years after the…

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Hand-switching a hopper car
Jun 6, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Hand-switching a hopper car

Employees of New Jersey short line Union Transportation Co. use pinch bars and muscle power to move a car of…

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Empty hoppers on the C&O
Jun 5, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Empty hoppers on the C&O

Four GP9s climb west on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line with empty hoppers to be reloaded with coal in…

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D&RGW Pacific at Pinecliff
Jun 4, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

D&RGW Pacific at Pinecliff

Pacific 801 leads Rio Grande train 10, the local from Craig, Colo., to Denver, out of Tunnel 29 east of…

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C&IM caboose
Jun 3, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

C&IM caboose

One of the Chicago & Illinois Midland’s distinctive green-and-red cabooses trails 85 empty coal hoppers heading south at Atterbury, Ill.,…

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Terminal tower
May 31, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Terminal tower

Just out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Kansas City Southern E8 leads the Southern Belle past Clara Street tower…

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Streamlined steam
May 30, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Streamlined steam

In the late 1930s and early 1940s the venerable Lehigh Valley streamlined several of its named passenger trains. This is…

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Story City steam
May 29, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Story City steam

Minneapolis & St. Louis G6-24 class 4-6-0 No. 226, built by Baldwin in 1909, backs a train into Story City,…

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