Destination: the cutting torch
Nine Milwaukee Road steam locomotives move east out of Marion, Iowa, on April 5, 1954, en route to an appointment…
Read moreNine Milwaukee Road steam locomotives move east out of Marion, Iowa, on April 5, 1954, en route to an appointment…
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Chicago & North Western E8 5024A is just hitting the Milwaukee Road diamond on the south side of Racine, Wis.,…
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Baltimore & Ohio’s first P-7 Pacific, No. 5300 (originally named President Washington) is about to enter Howard Street Tunnel as…
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EMD and GE diesels lead a Burlington Northern unit coal train past the Western Avenue commuter-train station and Union Avenue…
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Baltimore & Ohio P-7 Pacific 5305 passes through the interlocking at Halethorpe, Md., as semaphore signals are being replaced by…
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Steeple-cab motors 604 and 603 prepare to pull cars off Sacramento Northern’s ferry Ramon at Mallard, Calif., on the south…
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Engine crewmen confer beside the cab ladder as the two Fairbanks-Morse diesels heading Milwaukee Road’s eastbound Olympian Hiawatha are fueled…
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L&N freight No. 66 is just two miles out of its initial terminal at Norton, Va., as the Interstate Railroad’s…
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On Aug. 5, 1958, the last Maryland & Pennsylvania train from Baltimore heads north across the trestle at Sharon, Md.,…
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Railfans festoon the caboose roofs and crowd the Alco diesel switcher’s cab during an excursion on the Fonda, Johnstown &…
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In 1960, the Santa Fe opened a 44-mile line between Williams and Crookton, Ariz., to reduce grades and curvature. This…
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An A-B-B set of Santa Fe FT diesels rolls a 127-car freight extra west at Galesburg, Ill., in June 1953.…
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