Boarding Wabash’s Blue Bird
Dec 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Boarding Wabash’s Blue Bird

A man and girl walk past the Blue Bird’s dome-observation car as they board the Wabash’s streamliner to St. Louis…

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E5 with new bi-levels
Dec 14, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

E5 with new bi-levels

An E5 heads up one of the first Burlington Route commuter train to sport the new bi-level “gallery” cars delivered…

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Erie PA at Hoboken
Dec 13, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Erie PA at Hoboken

Erie Railroad Alco passenger diesel No. 860 stands with a train at Hoboken, N.J., in April 1959. Erie’s 14 PAs…

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Inside the <i>Train of Tomorrow</i>
Dec 12, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Inside the <i>Train of Tomorrow</i>

Models pose for the camera inside Moon Glow, the Train of Tomorrow’s dome-observation-lounge car. GM and Pullman-Standard built the four-car,…

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Santa Fe FTs in the desert
Dec 12, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe FTs in the desert

Crewmen wave and the white extra flags are taut as four FTs speed a freight west across the desert between…

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Rio Grande 4-8-2 helper
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Rio Grande 4-8-2 helper

Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 1513 pushes hard on the caboose of a 55-car freight climbing the Front Range…

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Skytop sleeper at Milwaukee
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Skytop sleeper at Milwaukee

The Skytop sleeper-observation car of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha, highlighted by plenty of windows and chrome trim, stands at…

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PRR in the New York area
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

PRR in the New York area

This bird’s-eye view map from the April 1946 issue of Trains magazine shows the Pennsylvania’s extensive facilities in the New…

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Low-numbered Pennsy engine
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Low-numbered Pennsy engine

Pennsylvania class L1 Mikado No. 26, trailing an additional tender for extra water capacity, heads a train of empty coal…

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B&O’s Keyser tower
Oct 18, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O’s Keyser tower

The former Baltimore & Ohio tower at Keyser, W.Va., seen here in 2004 under CSX ownership, was a classic “armstrong”…

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