Super C celebration
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Super C celebration

Santa Fe’s high-priority Super C freight between Chicago and Los Angeles debuted with much fanfare in 1968. High rates, charged…

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Swift service
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Swift service

Swift & Co. had a large soybean processing plant on the Nickel Plate Road at Frankfort, Ind. In this 1946…

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Two cars to Tidewater
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Two cars to Tidewater

Eastern Gas & Fuel’s modern Wharton No. 2 mine southwest of Barrett, W.Va., will load 105 hoppers, including subject C&O…

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Premier power
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Premier power

Santa Fe FT No. 100 was not only the railroad’s first mainline freight diesel, but part of the first order…

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San Francisco Zephyr
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

San Francisco Zephyr

New EMD F40PH diesels lead the westbound San Francisco Zephyr east of Denver in June 1981. Amtrak acquired more than 200 such…

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Seaboard Century
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Seaboard Century

Seaboard Coast Line Alco C628 No. 2201 leads a mixed consist of locomotives at Colliers Yard near Petersburg, Pa., waiting…

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Steam prototype
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Steam prototype

The 2-10-4 wheel arrangement, the “Texas type,” originated with a modified Santa Fe 2-10-2 — No. 3829, built by Baldwin…

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Story City service
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Story City service

In fall 1942, Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-6-0 No. 331 heads for Story City, Iowa, northwest from Minerva Junction and…

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Main Street of the Northwest
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Main Street of the Northwest

Mountains and rivers defined the scenic attraction of the Northern Pacific. Here, an A-B-B-A set of F units leads a…

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Mill town terminal
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Mill town terminal

Northern Pacific L-9 class 0-6-0s 1082 and 1126 pause between work at Aberdeen, Wash., on a rare sunny day in…

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Minute Man maroon
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Minute Man maroon

Surrounded by the new wave of motive power, a Boston & Maine worker rests at Boston’s Charlestown engine terminal in…

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Muscatine memory
Feb 20, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Muscatine memory

Culver Tower in Muscatine, Iowa, guarded the junction of Milwaukee Road and Rock Island main lines on the southwest side…

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