California coast
Santa Fe FT No. 168 set makes its regular run on train 75 north of San Diego in August 1951.…
Read moreSanta Fe FT No. 168 set makes its regular run on train 75 north of San Diego in August 1951.…
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A mix of GE and EMD units lead an eastward Conrail freight off the former Pennsylvania Railroad Atglen & Susquehanna…
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Chicago & Illinois Midland American-type 4-4-0 No. 500 hustles a two-car passenger train north under Illinois Route 97 near Petersburg…
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A Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Electroliner streaks through the south side of Milwaukee en route to Chicago in October…
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Western Maryland 2-8-0 750 and a combine car stand at the station in Durbin, W.Va., end of the run for…
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Three red-and-white EMD road-switchers — two GP35s and a GP40 — lead an eastbound freight across the great steel viaduct…
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Union Pacific 3939, the final member of the batch of 25 4-6-6-4 Challengers that Alco built for the road in…
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Meadow River Lumber Co. No. 7 is a good example of a three-truck, standard-gauge, coal-burning Shay with a Radley &…
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Baltimore & Ohio’s Howard Street Tunnel below downtown Baltimore was the site of the first “steam-railroad” electrification in America. This…
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Located outside Indianapolis, Avon Yard was one of several modern freight classification yards New York Central opened in the 1950s.…
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Delaware & Hudson RS2 4001 and Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 2471 idle under the shed at Canadian Pacific’s Windsor Station, Montreal,…
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Meatpacking firm John Morrell & Co. led the switch away from ice in refrigerator cars. Two of Morrell’s Mather cars…
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