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Grand Central Station, Chicago
Oct 9, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Grand Central Station, Chicago

The Baltimore & Ohio’s passenger terminal in Chicago was Grand Central Station, built in 1890 to the plans of noted…

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NP 4-6-6-4 at Livingston, Mont.
Oct 3, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NP 4-6-6-4 at Livingston, Mont.

As trackworkers tend to a frozen switch, Northern Pacific 4-6-6-4 No. 5122 prepares to head east out of Livingston, Mont.,…

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UP and SP at LAUPT
Oct 2, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

UP and SP at LAUPT

Union Pacific 4-8-4 803 and a Southern Pacific E7 wait outside Los Angeles Union Passenger terminal in the late 1940s,…

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Cresting Saluda Grade
Oct 1, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Cresting Saluda Grade

Southern Railway FP7 6141 and an F3 roar uphill into the hamlet of Saluda, N.C., top of famous 4.7-percent Saluda…

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Legends in their fields
Sep 29, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Legends in their fields

Trains magazine editor David P. Morgan pauses on a station platform at Joliet, Ill., to watch trains – in this case…

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Half-tracks on tracks
Sep 24, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Half-tracks on tracks

Army half-tracks are loaded onto flatcars at an unidentified location during World War II. This image is from the 1943…

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