NOUPT’s new ticket counter
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NOUPT’s new ticket counter

Passengers line up along the marble ticket counter just inside the front entrance of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal shortly…

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Ore train on a PRR branch
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Ore train on a PRR branch

In September 1955, Pennsylvania Railroad M1 4-8-2 6894 leads an ore train west at Alexandria, Pa., on the road’s Hollidaysburg…

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Pacific Great Eastern 70-tonners
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Pacific Great Eastern 70-tonners

GE’s 70-tonner was ideal for the lightly constructed Pacific Great Eastern. The British Columbia road had six of them, two…

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Cleaning a grain boxcar
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Cleaning a grain boxcar

The Soo Line used what it called Mobile Cleaning Units — trucks with a power sweeper, power washers, and other…

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Day’s end for a 4-4-0
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Day’s end for a 4-4-0

Canadian Pacific 4-4-0 136 waits to enter the one-stall engine house at Norton, N.B., after bringing a mixed train in…

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J-3a Hudson departing La Salle Street
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

J-3a Hudson departing La Salle Street

New York Central J-3a Hudson 5414, modified with twin sealed-beam headlight and high-capacity centipede tender, departs La Salle Street Station,…

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Liberty Limited at Baltimore
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Liberty Limited at Baltimore

GG1 4901’s nose door is ajar as it leads sister 4894 on the Pennsy’s Liberty Limited out of Baltimore in September 1954.…

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Lima along Lake Erie
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Lima along Lake Erie

Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 779 hurries west with a freight beside Lake Erie between Lorain and Vermilion, Ohio, in April…

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0-4-0T amid smoke and steam
Mar 20, 2019·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

0-4-0T amid smoke and steam

Four-wheel saddle-tanker No. 3, a 1910 product of Alco’s Cooke works, is enveloped in clouds of smoke and steam at…

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NKP Berkshire at Bellevue
Oct 22, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NKP Berkshire at Bellevue

In September 1955, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 774 moves through the yard at Bellevue, Ohio, as a Fairbanks-Morse diesel switcher…

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Belt Railway C424s
Oct 22, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Belt Railway C424s

Alco built a total of 190 Century 424 road-switchers during 1963–67. Nearly half went to Canada, and a quarter to…

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