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Omaha switcher
Oct 13, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Omaha switcher

Baldwin built this 0-8-0 for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, a Chicago & North Western affiliate better known…

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Paper trail
Oct 8, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Paper trail

Signode introduced its first single-use paper grain door in 1948. Prior to that innovation, wooden boards were used. The remnants…

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Pointless Arrow
Oct 5, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Pointless Arrow

On May 1, 1971, Amtrak Passenger Service Rep Patty Saunders, who once was a Seaboard Coast Line hostess, poses with…

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Pure Gold
Oct 1, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Pure Gold

Orange groves are visible across the road from the LaVerne Cooperative Citrus Association packing house, one of California’s largest in…

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Texas terminal
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Texas terminal

Just after the turn of the 20th century, large terminal elevators began to appear. Grain gathered in these mammoth concrete…

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Roundhouse still life
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Roundhouse still life

Roundhouses were filled with life, from steam locomotives to the workers who maintained them. This is a 2-8-2 in the…

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Refined steam
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Refined steam

Pennsylvania K4s 4-6-2 No. 5399, built at the railroad’s Juniata shops in 1923, was rebuilt by Lima in 1939 with…

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Prototype diesel
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Prototype diesel

An A-B set of drawbar-connected Boston & Maine EMD FTs (in Boston in March 1950) shows the distinctive four-porthole styling…

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Profiles in progress
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Profiles in progress

Chesapeake & Ohio H-8 2-6-6-6 No. 1647 departs Handley, W.Va., with tidewater coal — a dozen 67-inch driving wheels, 90…

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Packing produce
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Packing produce

Orange crates are stacked on end in two layers, with a third horizontal layer. The top of the load is…

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New Haven electric
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

New Haven electric

The first of New Haven’s new 3,600-hp General Electric passenger-service electric locomotives, No. 0361, poses for its builder’s photo in…

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MoPac doubleheader
Sep 16, 2020·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

MoPac doubleheader

Two Missouri Pacific 4-8-4s, Baldwin products of 1943, lead a westbound freight with a long string of hopper cars through…

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