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Baltimore & Ohio E7 diesels in A-B-A formation head a train carrying President Truman, on the campaign trail for re-election,…
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Carl Donald works the CTC board in the tower at Deshler, Ohio, in 1952. Wallace W. Abbey photo [...]Read More...
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Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No. 1610, one of the road’s 60 giant Allegheny types, works as a pusher on a…
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Romance aboard Amtrak’s Capitol Limited: A bit of background is in order to set the stage for this romance aboard…
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Among the most recognizable of all steam locomotive designs is the New York Central J-3a Hudson as styled by industrial…
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Milwaukee Road’s Minneapolis–Chicago Morning Hiawatha crosses from track 1 to track 2 as it passes over the Elgin, Joliet &…
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Amtrak inherited a menagerie of power at startup in 1971, but what were the oldest Amtrak locomotives? During the…
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Amtrak Amfleet cars were the first of the National Passenger Railroad Corporation’s own passenger cars in the 1970s. They were…
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Mind-blowing Big Boy facts In the 1959 Union Pacific movie Last of the Giants the narrator comments, “ … There…
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Spokane, Portland and Seattle freight trains remembered: All through August 2022, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the grit, panache, and charm that…
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Please enjoy this photo gallery of Spokane, Portland and Seattle locomotives selected from files in Kalmbach Media‘s David P. Morgan Library.…
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The Ingalls Shipbuilding 4S locomotive was a truly unique, one-of-a-kind diesel unit. The business world in general, and…
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