Stainless savior
Stainless savior Northern Pacific began replacing trains on its secondary routes with RDCs in 1955, and eventually had a fleet…
Read moreStainless savior Northern Pacific began replacing trains on its secondary routes with RDCs in 1955, and eventually had a fleet…
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Super Power premier The era of modern steam power dates to Lima’s development of Super Power and the Boston &…
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Pride of the fleet The Super Chief, which originated the Warbonnet paint scheme, quickly became Santa Fe’s signature passenger offering…
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Wabash’s Decatur, Ill.–Hannibal, Mo., “West Local” slows to do some work at Jacksonville, Ill., on July 9, 1962. In charge…
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axle passenger diesels built in 1935. EMC had no factory of its own yet, so this one was assembled at…
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Good rolling stock plays a major role in the operating quality of any layout. On most model railroads, the car…
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Rio Grande’s California Fast Freight departs Tennessee Pass station, crest of the Continental Divide, in April 1938. Big 2-8-8-2 3606…
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A new aesthetic — “streamlining” — took hold in the 1930s. Objects from telephones to ocean liners were designed to…
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Norfolk & Western K2 4-8-2 117, just in from Lynchburg with the Tennessean, is prepared for its next assignment in…
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With the real thing in the background, New York Central President Alfred Perlman accepts a model of an RS11 from…
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Rio Grande Alco PA 6013 revs up out of Littleton, Colo., with the Denver-bound Royal Gorge on May 18, 1967.…
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Workers at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal enginehouse prepare Louisville & Nashville FP7 651 and a GP7 to go…
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