P&LE Berkshire
Dec 19, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

P&LE Berkshire

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 2-8-4 No. 9401 leads a southbound freight through the station at Beaver, Pa., in June 1948.…

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NOUPT’s Clara Street tower
Dec 16, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NOUPT’s Clara Street tower

F. C. Jones works the model board inside brand-new Clara Street tower, part of the project that produced New Orleans…

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No locomotive needed!
Dec 15, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

No locomotive needed!

An employee uses a car mover to shift a Milwaukee Road boxcar on a side track. Car movers have hinged…

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MoPac 4-6-2, Cotton Belt 4-6-0
Dec 14, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

MoPac 4-6-2, Cotton Belt 4-6-0

Missouri Pacific 4-6-2 6621 and St. Louis-Southwestern 4-6-0 663 await their next assignments at the Memphis Union Station engine house…

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Midland Terminal Moguls
Dec 13, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Midland Terminal Moguls

Three 2-6-0s (rebuilt from U.S. Army 0-6-0s) team up on a Midland Terminal ore train in the Cripple Creek mining…

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GG1 and P70s
Dec 9, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

GG1 and P70s

Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 4907 leads a southbound train at Aberdeen, Md., in about 1949. The six-car consist contains four modernized…

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Face of a C&O 2-10-4
Dec 8, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Face of a C&O 2-10-4

Chesapeake & Ohio 3039, seen at Cotton Hill, W.Va., in 1950, was the last of 40 big class T-1 2-10-4s…

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Cincinnatian at Cincinnati
Dec 7, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Cincinnatian at Cincinnati

In a September 1952 view at Cincinnati Union Terminal, passengers board Baltimore & Ohio’s Cincinnatian for Detroit. Wallace W. Abbey photo [...]Read…

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Big Emma at rest
Dec 6, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Big Emma at rest

Louisville & Nashville class M-1 No. 1988, one of 42 “Big Emma” 2-8-4s Baldwin and Lima built for the road…

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Better than K-rations
Dec 5, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Better than K-rations

Servicemen enjoy a meal on one of Baltimore & Ohio’s elegant colonial-themed dining cars during World War II. B&O photo…

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Algers, Winslow & Western 0-6-0
Dec 2, 2022·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Algers, Winslow & Western 0-6-0

At Enosville in southwestern Indiana, six-wheel switcher No. 57 of 16-mile coal-hauler Algers, Winslow & Western rests between runs in…

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