Man and machine
At Works Tower in Altoona, Pa., a fresh crew gets ready to take Chicago-bound Pennsylvania Railroad piggyback train TT1 west.…
Read moreAt Works Tower in Altoona, Pa., a fresh crew gets ready to take Chicago-bound Pennsylvania Railroad piggyback train TT1 west.…
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The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was the first railroad to order Electro-Motive Corp. FTs, and four of them are…
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Alabama, Tennessee & Northern No. 11, a General Electric 45-ton center-cab diesel, switches high-pressure tank cars for a refinery on…
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With the sun just about to set, Charlie Comstock photographed a Southern Pacific local switching cars in Jallen. The workload…
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Four red-and-white GP40s lead fast freight train 33, the Texas Special, into Valley Park, Mo., on Nov. 25, 1980, four…
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Working its way upgrade, Union Pacific Alco RS-2 no. 1293 leads a local near Beaver Creek, Idaho. The train will…
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Virginia & Truckee 2-8-0 No. 5 brings the daily-except-Sunday mixed train across the highway crossing at Washoe, Nev., on Aug.…
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On a hot summer afternoon, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 thunders past a small desert gas station. The…
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Denver & Rio Grande Western Mikados Nos. 497 and 488 lift an eastbound narrow gauge train up Cumbres Pass in…
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The quiet of rural Iowa is temporarily interrupted by the roar of a passing train. Here, a Chicago & North…
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The plain 40-foot, general-purpose boxcar was the standard method of hauling bulk grain through the 1960s. Adding temporary grain doors…
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