In Grande style
The Denver & Rio Grande Western, symbol of so much of Colorado railroading, had nowhere else to go for traffic.…
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The Denver & Rio Grande Western, symbol of so much of Colorado railroading, had nowhere else to go for traffic.…
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Illinois Terminal GP38-2 No. 2004 leads two sisters and a Conrail GP38-2 at Granite City, Ill., in August 1980. The…
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Norfolk & Western’s top fast-freight engines were 43 class A simple articulated 2-6-6-4s. No. 1239, built in 1949 as part…
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The Pennsylvania Railroad liked to double-head K4s Pacifics on heavy passenger trains. Here, the second section of eastbound train 76,…
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After doubling its train together at Clare Yard in Cincinnati, train 78 prepares to depart east for Portsmouth, Ohio, over…
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Colorado Railroad Museum founder Bob Richardson moves a three-way switch at the Narrow Gauge Museum south of Alamosa, Colo., in…
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Trailers were loaded and unloaded at mid-century “circus style” by means of a ramp at the end of a track…
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In southwest Indiana, well-kept caboose 101 brings up the rear of a train on the Algers, Winslow & Western, a…
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Louisville & Nashville 4-8-2 No. 407 on Cincinnati–Birmingham train 7 passes 2-8-0 No. 1212 on a northbound freight on double…
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A rakish Otto Kuhler–designed observation car brings up the rear of a Hiawatha departing Milwaukee, 85 miles from the end…
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Crowds have gathered at Tacoma, Wash., on June 29, 1947, to witness the departure of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha…
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Colorado & Southern’s Denver–Dallas Texas Zephyr, led by a pair of rakish E5s from parent Burlington Route, speeds southward through…
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