View from the ‘Coast Daylight’
Dec 27, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

View from the ‘Coast Daylight’

Two passengers on Southern Pacific’s Coast Daylight watch with fascination as a 2-10-2 helper and 4-8-4 road engine lift their…

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Turntable under a highway
Dec 26, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Turntable under a highway

New York Central box-cab locomotive 548 rides the turntable at the 72nd Street engine house on the west side of…

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Transcontinental sleeper transfer
Dec 25, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Transcontinental sleeper transfer

In October 1950, a Chesapeake & Ohio 0-8-0 moves sleeping car Surprise Valley through the interlocking at 21st Street, Chicago.…

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Train time at Canton, S.Dak.
Dec 22, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Train time at Canton, S.Dak.

The Milwaukee Road’s station at Canton in the southeast corner of South Dakota is bustling with activity as cars off…

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Switching stock cars at Omaha
Dec 21, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Switching stock cars at Omaha

A switchman signals a South Omaha Terminal Railway switcher as the diesel adds cars onto the meat train transfer at…

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Loading livestock at Silverton
Dec 20, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Loading livestock at Silverton

The narrow-gauge Denver & Rio Grande Western did a lot of livestock business. Here, several stock cars are loaded with…

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Double departure from Baltimore
Dec 19, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Double departure from Baltimore

In a 1947 view at Baltimore & Ohio’s Camden Station in Baltimore, a Baltimore & Annapolis interurban train departs for…

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L&N celebrity Pacific
Dec 18, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

L&N celebrity Pacific

Louisville & Nashville heavy 4-6-2 No. 295 was mechanically and cosmetically upgraded in 1940 for duty on the new South…

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Dome car in the Rockies
Dec 8, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Dome car in the Rockies

In a view from one of the California Zephyr’s five regularly assigned dome cars, another dome curves through the Rocky…

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Decapod on Helmstetter’s Curve
Dec 7, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Decapod on Helmstetter’s Curve

Western Maryland 2-10-0 1109 rounds famous Helmstetter’s Curve west of Cumberland, Md., with a westbound freight in May 1952. Unseen,…

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Coast Line doubleheader
Dec 6, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Coast Line doubleheader

Atlantic Coast Line 2-8-2 7230 and 4-8-2 7372 team up on a northbound freight near Vienna, Va., in 1947. Both…

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Central C-Liner and a Studebaker
Dec 5, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Central C-Liner and a Studebaker

New York Central 4505, a rare Fairbanks-Morse CPA-24-5, leads a train toward Chicago at Otis, Ind., in April 1954. A…

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