Morning Zephyr in the snow
Burlington Route’s Chicago–Minneapolis Morning Zephyr forges west at Downers Grove, Ill., on a snowy January 13, 1948. The six-car train carries four…
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Burlington Route’s Chicago–Minneapolis Morning Zephyr forges west at Downers Grove, Ill., on a snowy January 13, 1948. The six-car train carries four…
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D&RGW SD40T-2s on a coal drag off the Craig Branch hold the main line for a meet with westbound freight…
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Pennsylvania Railroad B6sb 0-6-0 5244 simmers inside the road’s roundhouse at Camden, N.J., on October 4, 1958. PRR stopped using…
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The Reading’s 20 class K-1sb locomotives, constructed by Baldwin in 1931 and tipping the scales at a whopping 451,000 pounds,…
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Safe from the frigid weather outside, the conductor of a Canadian National freight train examines his wheel reports as his…
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Illinois Terminal car 277 stands at the interurban’s station in Springfield, Ill., after running from East Peoria as train 95…
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CTC signals, angled for better visibility on a left-hand curve, preside over Atlantic Coast Line train 76, the northbound Havana…
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A single Alco PA diesel waits at Bloomington, Ill., with a Gulf, Mobile & Ohio local passenger train for St.…
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North of Aberdeen, Md., in about 1957, a Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 speeds toward Washington with the new Budd-built Keystone consist. GG1s…
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Ten-Wheeler No. 211 of the Georgia Railroad rolls freight out of Scottsdale, Ga., in June 1936. C. K. Marsh Jr.…
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Duluth & Northeastern Vice President and General Manager E. A. Blinn walks down the platform of the short line’s station…
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A string of coal hoppers crests the hump at Chesapeake & Ohio’s yard in Clifton Forge, Va., in June 1955.…
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