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A trio of six-axle Alcos moves tonnage through Partridge, Mich., on Feb. 19, 1981 on the Chicago & Northwestern. Tom…
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A trio of six-axle Alcos moves tonnage through Partridge, Mich., on Feb. 19, 1981 on the Chicago & Northwestern. Tom…
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A Reading I-8sb 2-8-0, standard freight power on the road’s Wilmington & Northern branch, is a long way from that…
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A pair of Kansas City Southern GP22ECO rebuilds, products of Electro-Motive’s repowering program, work westward toward Metro Junction near Denton,…
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Louisville & Nashville Alco C420s Nos. 1377 and 1361 lead a freight at East Bernstadt, Ky., on June 29, 1978.…
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HINTON, Alta. — Twenty-five years to the day after one of Canada’s deadliest train crashes, the Edmonton Sun published the…
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A trio of BNSF power has doublestacks and autoracks in tow at Martinez, Calif., on Nov. 29, 2004. Tom Murray…
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An eastbound Union Pacific freight smokes it up leaving Taylor, Texas, on a December 1995 day. On the point is…
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Richard Benton (left) with a railroader in a traditional Eastern hat at Potomac Yard in the 1950s. Richardson D. Benton…
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Looking not unlike Miss Hazen’s train 719, an unidentified Bay Head local rockets out of South Amboy behind Pennsy K4…
Read moreQ How have traffic patterns changed on the former Illinois Central line just west of Hawthorne Yard in Cicero, Ill.,…
Read moreQ Is it gantlet or gauntlet? My dictionary describes the former as a type of railroad track and the latter…
Read moreQ I just saw the preview for “Unstoppable.” How can a train with no air in the reserve tank and…
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