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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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Hoseshoe helper
Sep 25, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Hoseshoe helper

Conrail 6070, a former Erie Lackawanna SD45, assists a westbound freight up Pennsylvania’s Horseshoe Curve on July 25, 1981, just…

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Half-tracks on tracks
Sep 24, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Half-tracks on tracks

Army half-tracks are loaded onto flatcars at an unidentified location during World War II. This image is from the 1943…

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Great grains
Sep 23, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Great grains

Jumbo 100-ton covered hoppers revolutionized rail handling of grain in the 1960s. The Great Northern staged this publicity photo near…

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Baltimore beauty
Sep 22, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Baltimore beauty

PCC car 7352 passes the imposing York Road car house in June 1960; this and six other Baltimore barns were…

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AT&SF Atlantic
Sep 18, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

AT&SF Atlantic

Built in 1910 by Baldwin, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 1485 is one of 23 similar locomotives that operated…

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