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Bath for a BN E8
Dec 10, 2021·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Bath for a BN E8

Burlington Northern E8 No. 9900 eases through the wash rack west of Union Avenue interlocking, Chicago, about 1980. Paul D.…

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Preparing a K4
Dec 9, 2021·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Preparing a K4

At the Pennsylvania’s South Amboy, N.J., engine terminal in the mid-1950s, a hostler shovels coal into the firebox of a…

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B&O 2-8-2 at rest
Dec 7, 2021·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O 2-8-2 at rest

Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 No. 4858 stands with a caboose at the road’s terminal at Cowen, W.Va., in May 1952.…

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Remnant of a dream
Dec 6, 2021·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Remnant of a dream

The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient was conceived to connect Kansas City with the nearest Pacific Ocean port — Topolobampo,…

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Akron, Canton & Youngstown action
Dec 3, 2021·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Akron, Canton & Youngstown action

Akron, Canton & Youngstown H20-44 No. 503, a 2,000 h.p. end-cab road-switcher built by Fairbanks-Morse, crosses the Big Four (NYC)…

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Seaboard RS3 road-switchers
Dec 2, 2021·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Seaboard RS3 road-switchers

Two Seaboard Air Line RS3 road-switchers work at Madison, Fla., in 1965, two years before the road merged with the…

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