Los Angeles or Denver?
Jan 9, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Los Angeles or Denver?

Union Pacific E3A No. 5-M-1A and E3B No. 5-M-1B were bought – and lettered for – the road’s City of…

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Krauss-Maffei close-up
Jan 6, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Krauss-Maffei close-up

Rio Grande 4001, a diesel-hydraulic built by Germany’s Krauss-Maffei, fills the window of a caboose cupola on Oct. 11, 1963.…

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KP duty on a troop train
Jan 5, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

KP duty on a troop train

In the kitchen car of a Korean War-era troop train out of Fort Meade, Md., the cook tends to a…

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FEC’s Gulfstream
Jan 4, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

FEC’s Gulfstream

An A-B set of E7 diesels brings Florida East Coast’s Gulfstream into the station at Daytona Beach, Fla., in the…

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Rocky Mountain Mallet
Jan 3, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Rocky Mountain Mallet

Denver & Rio Grande Western 3404, from a batch of 16 2-8-8-2 Mallets built by Alco in 1913, gets ready…

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“Annie” FAs at Durand
Dec 30, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

“Annie” FAs at Durand

Ann Arbor Railroad freight TF-1, led by Alco FA diesels in the blue-white-gray of AA parent Wabash, crosses one of…

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Troop train in the Sierras
Dec 28, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Troop train in the Sierras

A Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 leads a long string of troop sleepers on snowy Donner Pass in the mid-1940s. Pullman-Standard built…

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Scenic Limited observation car
Dec 23, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Scenic Limited observation car

Passengers fill the rear platform of the observation car on Rio Grande’s Scenic Limited at Denver Union Station in about 1928. Those…

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Santa Fe’s wheat kingdom
Dec 22, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe’s wheat kingdom

Several boxcars await loading at three classic wooden elevators along the Santa Fe at Dumas, Texas, in late summer 1936.…

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Santa Fe reefer block
Dec 21, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe reefer block

A Santa Fe 4-8-4 powers a long string of new Santa Fe Refrigerator Department reefers near Winslow, Ariz., in the…

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