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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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Cody’s Office | October 2025
Oct 6, 2025·Cody's Office·Model Railroader

Cody’s Office | October 2025

Welcome back to Cody’s Office! This month’s episode is packed with three new products, a helpful modeling tip, and answers…

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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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Load ‘em up
Sep 30, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Load ‘em up

Early auto racks allowed easy loading and unloading of multiple cars with end ramps. Here AMC cars are being loaded…

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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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Intermountain interloper
Sep 26, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Intermountain interloper

Two of Rio Grande’s Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics spent almost three weeks testing on the New York Central in early 1963. Here…

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