Norfolk Southern closes Alto tower NEWSWIRE
ALTOONA, Pa. – On Saturday June 16, at 12:13 p.m., Norfolk Southern’s Alto tower in downtown Altoona was vacant for…
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FULL SCREEN Photograph by John Walker Barriger III. Courtesy of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, St. Louis…
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Engineer Norman Strickland (in front of cylinder) and fireman Russell Phillips stand at Perryville, Md., with G5s 1592, ready to…
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On a day when they left the “Green Hornet” parked in order to simply watch the Afternoon Hiawatha sweep by,…
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Union Pacific’s Las Vegas depot was the gateway to temptation for some passengers. Fletcher Swan I am a fanatic when…
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When SP cab-forward 4173 derailed on the turntable at Tucson, “suits” and laborers reported to the scene. R. S. Plummer,…
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Twenty-four years separate these two density maps — a long time in North American railroading. The 1974 Penn Central map…
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Illinois Railway Museum’s Burlington E5 No. 9911-A, and the Nebraska Zephyr occasionally makes an appearance outside of the museum. On…
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Near the end of its San Francisco–L.A. run, SP GS-2 4-8-4 4415 rolls “Overnight Merchandise” train 374 through Glendale. Herb…
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This Map of the Month appeared in the May 2004 issue of Trains magazine. If a system map is an archaeological…
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Townspeople of South Charleston, W.Va., inspect C&O 500, first of the road’s trio of colossal steam-electric-turbine locomotives intended for its…
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CB&Q Hudson 4000, a sister to the 3012 that surprised Bob Jack on a freight, works tonnage at Galesburg, Ill.,…
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