2-8-2T logging engine
Jul 6, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

2-8-2T logging engine

Simpson Lumber Co. No. 12, a 2-8-2T with tender, waits at the loading spar. By this 1949 view, the Washington…

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Monon’s Tippecanoe
Jul 4, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Monon’s Tippecanoe

An F3 leads the five cars of Monon’s Chicago–Indianapolis Tippecanoe across the Grand Calumet River in Hammond, Ind., on May…

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Doubleheader on Sherman Hill
Jul 3, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Doubleheader on Sherman Hill

Union Pacific 2-8-2 2250 assists 2-8-8-2 3572, acquired from the Chesapeake & Ohio to move wartime freight, up Sherman Hill…

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Morning at Chipman, New Brunswick
Jun 30, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Morning at Chipman, New Brunswick

In November 1953, Canadian Pacific 4-6-0 No. 1105, being prepared for a day’s work at Chipman, New Brunswick, steams ahead…

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Ma & Pa farewell
Jun 29, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Ma & Pa farewell

The last Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad train out of Baltimore crosses the trestle at Sharon, Md., on Aug. 5, 1958.…

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GTW gathering place
Jun 27, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

GTW gathering place

Four Grand Trunk Western passenger trains meet at Durand, Mich., in July 1950. A streamlined 4-8-4 has just arrived with…

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Frisco E7 posing as an E8
Jun 26, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Frisco E7 posing as an E8

St. Louis-San Francisco No. 2005 Winchester has the grilles and portholes of an E8, but it’s really an E7, as…

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D&RGW meet at Tolland, Colo.
Jun 22, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

D&RGW meet at Tolland, Colo.

Riding the pilot beam of a big 2-8-8-2, the head brakeman on Rio Grande Extra 3602 West waves to the…

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