Early Conrail at Conway Yard
This view inside a hump control tower at Conway Yard, the giant former Pennsylvania Railroad facility on the north bank…
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Three-decade-old Mikado 1540 stands with spanking new GP7 500 at Louisville & Nashville’s South Louisville Shops in 1951. Jack Fravert…
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Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 6 gets a spin on the turntable at the beloved little road’s Baltimore roundhouse in…
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In December 1949, a Burlington Route mail-and-express train rolls west near Keenesburg, Colo., with an express boxcar (a rebuilt troop…
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Burlington Northern E8 No. 9900 eases through the wash rack west of Union Avenue interlocking, Chicago, about 1980. Paul D.…
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At the Pennsylvania’s South Amboy, N.J., engine terminal in the mid-1950s, a hostler shovels coal into the firebox of a…
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Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 No. 4858 stands with a caboose at the road’s terminal at Cowen, W.Va., in May 1952.…
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The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient was conceived to connect Kansas City with the nearest Pacific Ocean port — Topolobampo,…
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Akron, Canton & Youngstown H20-44 No. 503, a 2,000 h.p. end-cab road-switcher built by Fairbanks-Morse, crosses the Big Four (NYC)…
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Two Seaboard Air Line RS3 road-switchers work at Madison, Fla., in 1965, two years before the road merged with the…
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The location is Union Avenue interlocking at the east end of Burlington Northern’s “racetrack” to Aurora in about 1980. Amtrak…
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Oklahoma troop train Santa Fe 4-6-2 1311 rolls east with a 13-car troop train near Quinlan, Okla., on Mar. 16,…
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