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Of all the mainline steam locomotives running these days — and there is an uncanny amount of them — I…
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General Electric AC6000CW The modern horsepower race between builders culminated in the 1990s with both General Electric and EMD producing…
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NC&StL locomotives were distinctive but disappeared all too soon. The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway had its share…
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General Electric locomotives One year after Genesee & Wyoming’s June 2023 announcement it was buying second-hand General Electric power from…
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Prior to the Hudsons, Mountains, and Northerns, the 4-6-2 Pacific-type was celebrated as THE passenger locomotive at the turn of…
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois locomotives served the road well through many decades of operation. C&EI was a coal-hauling…
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Amtrak GP40 diesel locomotives came in two flavors: eight former GO Transit GP40TCs acquired in October 1988 and 15 straight…
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DC-to-AC rebuild During the middle of May, Canadian National tested its first modified DC-to-AC rebuild on an ore train in…
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Although some units proved long-lived, the EMD NW5 sold just 13 copies. Although the pre-World War II EMD…
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Q: What causes a steam locomotive chuff sound? — Tom Huckaby A: Whether you call it a chuff (the railroader’s…
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Rock Island locomotives displayed a remarkable lack of diversity in the steam era. In contrast, during the diesel era, the…
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First-generation locomotives First-generation locomotives: The North American locomotive industry is currently into a deep rebuild cycle to keep their rosters…
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