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A Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train treads some of the most famous tracks outside of the mountains in Colorado: street…
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A Southern Pacific piggyback train of modified conventional flatcars with company trailers negotiates Cuesta Grade above San Luis Obispo, Calif.,…
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On Tennessee’s Smoky Mountain Railroad, a ramshackle old combine is pushed by 4-6-2 No. 110 on May 26, 1952. Outshopped…
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On August 2, 1911, the small town of Sheffield, Ill., 22 miles west of Bureau on the Rock Island’s main…
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At Fort Erie, Ont., Wabash F7 1160 and Canadian National 2-8-2 3431 share a November 1956 night. The diesel was…
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The Pennsylvania owned 22 Alco RS1s, acquired 1950–51. In this late 1950s view, No. 5620 idles at South Amboy, N.J.,…
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Santa Fe refrigerator cars loaded with potatoes from Kern County, Calif., head eastward at Topock, Ariz., in 1953. Even though…
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Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 3404, nicely turned out with white tires, running boards, and cylinder-head covers, assists a train up Tennessee…
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An early-1940s view from atop St. Louis Union Station’s trainshed imparts a sense of how busy the big terminal was…
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Having gotten a full bunker of coal, Tennessee Railroad 2-8-2 No. 40 takes water from the big tank at Oneida,…
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Northern Pacific’s westbound Mainstreeter carries several head-end cars as it rolls near Missoula, Mont., in 1966, including four NP express baggage cars,…
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Making 90 mph on an E7, a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road foreman of engines whistles for a grade crossing…
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