Alco C415 failure — Diesels that didn’t
Alco C415 failure was not what the famed locomotive maker had in mind in the 1960s. At the time, Alco…
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First of two parts. For decades, two Amtrak employees developed mutual respect for their work ethic among regular or occasional…
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A Pere Marquette 1225 steam locomotive profile is long past due. Not only is it one of the most active…
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Western Maryland 4-6-2 209 stands at Cumberland, Md., ready to depart with train 9 to Elkins, W.Va., in the early…
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David shares two options for modeling rivers on the State Line Route. He demonstrates how to make a muddy river…
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Illinois Central 4-8-2 No. 2452 contrasts with the stainless steel cars of New York Central’s James Whitcomb Riley as the…
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Southern Pacific’s “Slim Princess” line tackled the rugged and arid territory along the east side of Owens Lake between the…
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A load of hay has been transferred from a Northern Pacific boxcar to a truck for local delivery at Dickinson,…
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All through January 2022, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of the Norfolk & Western. Please enjoy…
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Three Illinois Central GP7s on a train of refrigerator cars loaded with meat from Iowa stand in western Illinois, waiting…
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A crane lowers into place the next-to-last plate girder of a new bridge that will replace a wood trestle on…
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Handsome D&RGW 1800, first of the road’s five class M-68 passenger 4-8-4s built by Baldwin in 1938, poses for a…
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