Chicago’s old Monroe Street Union Station
Before the current Chicago Union Station was opened in 1925, trains of the PRR, CB&Q, and Milwaukee Road used a…
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Before the current Chicago Union Station was opened in 1925, trains of the PRR, CB&Q, and Milwaukee Road used a…
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All through December 2021, Classic Trains is celebrating the Chicago Great Western Railway. Please enjoy this image gallery of…
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Experimental gas-turbine-electric No. 101, built at General Electric’s Erie, Pa., plant in 1948, heads a dynamometer car and a freight…
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This view inside a hump control tower at Conway Yard, the giant former Pennsylvania Railroad facility on the north bank…
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Three-decade-old Mikado 1540 stands with spanking new GP7 500 at Louisville & Nashville’s South Louisville Shops in 1951. Jack Fravert…
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Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 6 gets a spin on the turntable at the beloved little road’s Baltimore roundhouse in…
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In December 1949, a Burlington Route mail-and-express train rolls west near Keenesburg, Colo., with an express boxcar (a rebuilt troop…
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Burlington Northern E8 No. 9900 eases through the wash rack west of Union Avenue interlocking, Chicago, about 1980. Paul D.…
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At the Pennsylvania’s South Amboy, N.J., engine terminal in the mid-1950s, a hostler shovels coal into the firebox of a…
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Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 No. 4858 stands with a caboose at the road’s terminal at Cowen, W.Va., in May 1952.…
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