Diesel lineup at New Orleans
Mar 24, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Diesel lineup at New Orleans

Illinois Central, Texas & Pacific, and Kansas City Southern E units plus (barely visible) Louisville & Nashville and Southern Pacific…

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Dewey 1948 campaign train
Mar 21, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Dewey 1948 campaign train

Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 250 moves out of Othello, Wash., with Thomas E. Dewey’s 17-car presidential campaign train on September…

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Burlington “Banana Special”
Mar 20, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Burlington “Banana Special”

Two Burlington Route 2-10-2s power away from Edgemont, S.Dak., with a westbound “Banana Special,” 67 reefers of bananas bound for…

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B&O 2-10-2 on Sand Patch Grade
Mar 18, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O 2-10-2 on Sand Patch Grade

Baltimore & Ohio S-1 2-10-2 6149 descends the west side of the Allegheny Mountains at Keystone, Pa., after crossing the…

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Action on the Mesabi Range
Mar 17, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Action on the Mesabi Range

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-2 has hold of a caboose at Rainy Junction, Minn., on the Mesabi Iron…

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Action on the Front Range
Mar 14, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Action on the Front Range

GP30s stand in the foreground as F9s lead the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr up the Front Range toward the Moffat…

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Unloading on a car float
Mar 12, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Unloading on a car float

A worker unloads produce from refrigerator cars on a Pennsylvania Railroad car float in New York harbor in 1939. This…

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Troubled times
Mar 11, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Troubled times

Rolling through Marengo, Iowa, in May 1979 was this Rock Island freight with GP38-2 No. 4305 leading. This Davenport–Des Moines…

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Train time in New Orleans
Mar 10, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Train time in New Orleans

Passengers walk out to Missouri Pacific’s Orleanean, loading on Track 4 of recently opened New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in…

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