Camelback on Starrucca
Dec 4, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Camelback on Starrucca

In an early 20th century photo, a Camelback locomotive, probably a 2-8-0, crosses the Erie Railroad’s Starrucca Viaduct with a…

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‘Olympian Hiawatha’ dining car
Dec 1, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

‘Olympian Hiawatha’ dining car

An artist’s rendering depicts the interior of the dining car on the Milwaukee Road’s 1947 Olympian Hiawatha. Classic Trains coll.…

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Bessemer Baldwin
Nov 30, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Bessemer Baldwin

Bessemer & Lake Erie locomotive 403, one of 82 six-motor, 1,500 h.p. DRS-6-6-15 road-switchers built by Baldwin between 1948 and…

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BA&P road-switcher electrics
Nov 29, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

BA&P road-switcher electrics

Montana’s Butte, Anaconda & Pacific relied on a fleet of 28 General Electric box-cabs after it electrified its line in…

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Wooding-up
Nov 28, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Wooding-up

Crewmen toss pine knots into the tender of Mississippi & Alabama 2-6-2 Prairie-type No. 4 at the wood rack, or…

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Western Maryland Pacific
Nov 27, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Western Maryland Pacific

Well-tended Western Maryland 4-6-2 Pacific-type No. 153 stands beside the joint Chesapeake & Ohio-Western Maryland station at Durbin, W.Va., with…

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Troop train
Nov 23, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Troop train

Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 35th Division board cars at Camp Robinson, Ark., on December 18, 1941, less than two…

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Snow squall
Nov 22, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Snow squall

During a Lake Erie snow squall at Stony Point, Pa., about 12 miles west of Meadville, K-5 Pacific-type No. 2924…

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Punkin’ Vine
Nov 21, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Punkin’ Vine

Two Wabash F7s passes State Line Tower in Hammond, Ind., bound for the railroad’s so-called “Punkin’ Vine” route across northern…

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Passenger amenities
Nov 17, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Passenger amenities

The American Car & Foundry-built Missouri Pacific lounge diner on the South Texas Eagle offered a quality of food and…

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Nickel-plated freight
Nov 16, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Nickel-plated freight

Westbound Nickel Plate Road train NC-3 rolls through the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, in June 1959. The railroad, formally…

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