NYC’s <i>Knickerbocker</i> departs St. Louis
In the early 1950s, two E8s ease New York Central train 24, the Knickerbocker, out of St. Louis Union Station…
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Pennsylvania Railroad P5a electric 4737 brings a freight into Philadelphia from the west after a heavy snowfall in early 1958.…
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Illinois Central’s first streamliner, delivered in 1936, was the Green Diamond, a fully articulated aluminum train built by Pullman-Standard and…
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Well into the 1950s, the Nickel Plate Road believed its superb 2-8-4 Berkshires to be better than diesels for its…
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A brick interlocking tower guards the crossing of Soo Line (left to right in photo) and Chicago & North Western…
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The Frisco’s 4200-series Mikados of 1930 were among the most powerful 2-8-2s on any railroad. They were rated at 68,500…
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For a time in the 1950s, Southern Pacific had the most extensive piggyback operations in the land. Here a train…
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Handsome 4-8-2 No. 4018 marches away from Chicago’s Grand Central Station with Soo Line train 17 for Duluth, Minn., with…
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The engineer of a Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RS1 eyes the photographer as his locomotive clatters across the Rock Island…
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The 1951 edition of Great Northern’s flagship train, which the road called the Mid-Century Empire Builder at the time, included…
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In September 1955, workers at the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Renovo (Pa.) engine terminal prepare L1s 2-8-2 No. 8426 for service as…
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Pacific 2119 leads Northern Pacific train 288 east in Silver Bow Canyon, a dozen miles west of Butte, Mont., in…
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