Rock Island Rocket passenger trains
To say that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (Rock Island) was in a financial slump by the 1930s…
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E7 diesel 1101 leads Chicago & Eastern Illinois’ southbound Meadowlark at 63rd Street station (“Little Englewood”), Chicago, in the late…
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In 1928, the Northern Pacific went shopping for a locomotive that could eliminate doubleheading on the eastern end of its…
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The concrete west portal of Erie’s Otisville (N.Y.) tunnel — from which a Berkshire-powered freight emerges — is fairly simple,…
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PRR T1 4-4-4-4 No. 5507 clatters through 21st Street interlocking in Chicago with the Broadway Limited for New York. A T1 on…
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The Elizabethtown Public Library in Elizabethtown, Pa. has announced dates and times for the popular annual Train Guys Christmas Toy…
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Former Editor Neil Besougloff purchased this manuscript in 2002, and wondered why it hadn’t been used. I found the answer…
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The New York Central System was a vast and legendary railroad, connecting the East Coast to the Mississippi River. A…
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An SD40 and GP9 hold back a westbound freight as they descend Sand Patch Grade a couple of miles west…
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Canadian National 2-8-0 No. 2444, assigned as the switcher in Chipman, N.B., negotiates the steep grade and tight curves at…
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Nickel Plate 779 was not only the final member of that road’s notable family of Berkshires, it was also the…
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It’s been said that Milwaukee Road’s class F6 4-6-4s, built 1930–31, looked like they were going fast even when standing…
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