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A southbound Norfolk & Western freight train approaches the Southern Railway junction at Front Royal, Va., in this undated photo.…
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A southbound Norfolk & Western freight train approaches the Southern Railway junction at Front Royal, Va., in this undated photo.…
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USRA locomotives were born under unique circumstances. A confluence of circumstances led to the nationalization of many of America’s railroads…
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With its restoration complete but its boiler jacket incomplete, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 tests on Sept. 20, 1979.…
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Jim Shaughnessy Geeps at Boaz – 1 Framed by a waiting Y6 and the siding shanty, five N&W GP9’s pass…
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On a hot afternoon in August 1960, the year before the author began his Erie employment there, five Alco cab…
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In 1942, for a boy seeking brand-new road power, old Reading Camelback 0-6-0 1323 was nothing special—but would that we…
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Click the image to download this interactive PDF. Dick Steinheimer knew an era was coming to an end in the…
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From 1943 to 1989, Kalmbach Publishing Co. — whose family of magazines includes Model Railroader (launched 1934), Trains (1940), and…
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Bruceton was a busy junction in west Tennessee on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. One engineer who worked…
Read moreWay back in 1940, I took a fling at railroading. After ditching art school, I went to work for the…
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