Long Island C-Liner at Mineola
May 17, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Long Island C-Liner at Mineola

Long Island Rail Road train 233, behind a gray Fairbanks-Morse CPA20-5, pauses at Mineola station on its westbound run from…

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Light duty for a Milwaukee 4-8-4
May 16, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Light duty for a Milwaukee 4-8-4

With a consist of just two freshly painted boxcars, two dead Fairbanks-Morse diesels, and a bay window caboose, Milwaukee Road…

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Hudson carrying the mail
May 15, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Hudson carrying the mail

New York Central J-3 Hudson 5437 rushes west with mail train 257 at Millbury Junction, 7.5 miles east of Toledo…

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Hiawatha 4-6-4 cab
May 12, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Hiawatha 4-6-4 cab

Ready for service at the head of the Milwaukee Road’s 100-mph Hiawatha trains, a brand-new F7 streamlined 4-6-4 shows off its…

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Grand Trunk Western F3s on freight
May 11, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Grand Trunk Western F3s on freight

Two Grand Trunk Western F3s, dressed in the memorable but short-lived livery of parent Canadian National, wheel fast freight 492…

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Corn Belt Rocket at Des Moines
May 9, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Corn Belt Rocket at Des Moines

Passengers wait in the shade at Des Moines, Iowa, as Rock Island train 10, the Corn Belt Rocket from Omaha, pulls…

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Clearing a Rio Grande rotary
May 8, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Clearing a Rio Grande rotary

During an epic battle to reopen Cumbres Pass after a late December 1951 storm, a worker uses a shovel to…

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BL2 at Muskegon
May 5, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

BL2 at Muskegon

EMD’s BL2 of 1948–49 was conceived to be as versatile as a road-switcher yet attractive enough to give passenger trains…

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B&O tower at Deshler, Ohio
May 4, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O tower at Deshler, Ohio

Baltimore & Ohio’s DR Tower, pictured before daybreak in 1952, guards the crossing of the road’s Chicago and Toledo divisions…

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4-8-4 entering Moffat Tunnel
May 2, 2023·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

4-8-4 entering Moffat Tunnel

Rio Grande engine 1703, from the road’s first group of 4-8-4s, heads a westbound train out of Denver into the…

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