Lackawanna ferry boats
On a frigid February 10, 1951, four Hudson River ferries are in the slips of the Lackawanna Railroad’s Hoboken terminal.…
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On a frigid February 10, 1951, four Hudson River ferries are in the slips of the Lackawanna Railroad’s Hoboken terminal.…
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East Broad Top car M-1 was assembled in 1927 by EBT’s shops at Mount Union, Pa., from a kit of…
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A great snowstorm buried the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s narrow-gauge line east of Chama, N.Mex., a few days after…
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Tuscan-red E8s roll the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Chicago–New York Juniata beneath the George Westinghouse Bridge, which carried the Lincoln Highway over Turtle Creek…
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Union Pacific’s infatuation with super-sized diesels led to the creation of the General Electric U50 in 1963. The units featured…
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Wabash 2-6-0 573 heads a train on the road’s Keokuk (Iowa) branch just west of Carthage, Ill., on October 18,…
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A Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 thunders through Haverford, 9 miles west of Philadelphia on the Main Line, with the Admiral from…
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In the late 1940s or early ’50s, a worker at Santa Fe’s Los Angeles coach yard steam-cleans the air-conditioning equipment…
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Norfolk & Western’s Cincinnati–Norfolk Pocahontas descends Christiansburg Hill west of Roanoke in a cloud of dust on April 21, 1971. Ten days…
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Bumped by diesels from front-line road-freight assignments, two S-1 2-10-2s work as hump engines at Baltimore & Ohio’s big yard…
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Atlantic Coast Line E7 No. 526 pauses in Miami in January 1965. The 20-year-old locomotive has had some body panels…
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In late 1941, officials in hats and overcoats look over the newest thing on the Milwaukee Road: two-unit Electro-Motive E6…
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