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Pennsylvania Railroad E8 5767 and a sister bring a westbound train to a halt at Canton, Ohio, in September 1952.…
Read morePennsylvania Railroad E8 5767 and a sister bring a westbound train to a halt at Canton, Ohio, in September 1952.…
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Santa Fe 4-6-4 3460, the road’s only streamlined steam engine, nicknamed the “Blue Goose,” stands next to an E1 diesel…
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Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 No. 230 hauls an ore extra through Alborn, Minn., in 1959. Missabe men called…
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The conductor of Minneapolis & St. Louis’ Story City, Iowa, mixed train looks out from the old hack’s side door…
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The arm on a New York Central Railway Post Office car has just snatched the bag from the trackside crane.…
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Two biplanes trailing smoke accent a 1939 publicity photo of Florida East Coast’s Jacksonville–Miami Henry M. Flagler, named for the…
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Railroads were the primary means of moving men and materiel within the United States during World War II. Here a…
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A Clinchfield Railroad 4-6-6-4 gets under way with a long string of northbound coal hoppers at Ridge, N.C., in 1952.…
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The Burlington Route created the first dome cars by modifying two coaches originally built by Budd in 1940. Silver Dome,…
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During the first three decades of the 20th century, most toy train manufacturers simulated the appearance of prototype railroad cars…
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Railroads changed almost endlessly in 20th-century America, due to bankruptcies, mergers, and takeovers. Regional lines combined to improve efficiency, retain…
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ROANOKE, Va. — The National Railroad Hall of Fame inducted former Norfolk Southern CEO David Goode, the late Southern Railway…
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