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Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 30 stands at the road’s ramshackle coal dock at Baltimore in March 1955. H. N.…
Read moreMaryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 30 stands at the road’s ramshackle coal dock at Baltimore in March 1955. H. N.…
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Lots of switching occurs around the slow-speed trackage at the junction between the Green Mountain line to Bellows Falls (left)…
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Two Western Maryland F3s haul a 2-10-0 and its train on the outskirts of Baltimore. The diesels were on the…
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One of the last big-city stations to be built was Toledo Central Union Terminal, completed in 1950. Owned by New…
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The Rock Island used a variety of diesel power on its Chicago suburban trains, but Alco RS3s predominated. In 1966,…
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The list of 2025 rail preservation happenings is long. There are many organizations working on numerous fronts and making significant…
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New York Central 4-8-4 Niagara 6023 is near the end of its short life as it rambles through Millbury Junction,…
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Westinghouse and partner Baldwin fielded an experimental 4,000 h.p. B-B+B-B gas-turbine-electric in 1950. Dubbed the “Blue Goose” because of its…
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Two Pennsylvania Railroad P5a electrics roll northward with a freight at Halethorpe, Md., in the 1940s. Early P5a’s had box-cab…
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Atlas Model Railroad Co., Inc., 378 Florence Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, has announced two patriotic-themed SD40-2 diesel locomotives as part…
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Burlington Route 4-8-4 No. 5621 on a westbound freight clatters across the Illinois Central diamonds at Mendota, Ill., as it…
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The New York–Miami Silver Meteor heels to a curve near Sebring, Fla., on March 30, 1970, nearly 3 years after…
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