CN 2-8-0 in the rain
In a 1957 view from a crossing watchman’s tower at Burlington, Ont., elderly Canadian National 2-8-0 2647 passes in heavy…
Read moreIn a 1957 view from a crossing watchman’s tower at Burlington, Ont., elderly Canadian National 2-8-0 2647 passes in heavy…
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Baltimore & Ohio class EM-1 2-8-8-4 7620 crests Newburg Grade in West Virginia with eastbound coal in 1948. William P.…
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An A-B-A set of F units departs San Francisco with Southern Pacific train 372, the piggyback-heavy Advance Overnight for Los…
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Baltimore & Ohio No. 9 is one of four class C-16 0-4-0T switchers built in 1912 to work tight-radius street…
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At the dawn of the 20th century, dusk was approaching for the narrow gauge (3 feet or smaller between the…
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A 4-8-4 leads a freight east across the Lackawanna Railroad’s colossal Pequest Fill. At more than 3 miles long, Pequest…
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In a scene far removed from today’s unit and intermodal trains, a small boy watches as a shipment is loaded…
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Pennsylvania E7A 5901, one of the units constituting the big road’s first passenger diesel, teams up with an E7B and…
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Amtrak E60CH 966 on the Washington-bound Murray Hill has become disabled just south of Bowie, Md., on March 26, 1976.…
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An early-1904s view of the Santa Fe’s big freight yard at Barstow, Calif., shows, at the left side of the…
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Consolidation 2836 steams across a country road at Junction, Ill., with the every-other-day freight between Flora and Shawneetown in September…
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The 2-6-6-2T Mallet, exemplified by Weyerhauser No. 9, was perhaps the ultimate development of the logging locomotive. Compact, powerful, and…
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