Family on the Olympian Hiawatha
Artwork from a brochure promoting the Milwaukee Road’s postwar Olympian Hiawatha shows a family enjoying two double bedrooms en suite in the…
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Louisville & Nashville FP7 571 had not been long out of EMD’s plant at La Grange, Ill., when it breezed…
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Pennsylvania Railroad E6s 4-4-2 759 stands on the upper level tracks at 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, waiting to depart with…
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Baltimore & Ohio’s Grant Street Station on the north bank of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh opened in 1957 after…
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The second Super C test run set a record with a 34-hour 35-minute run from Chicago to Los Angeles in…
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The engineer oils the valve gear of Brooks-Scanlon Corp. No. 5, a cabbage-stacked, wood-burning 2-6-2 that hauled forest products in…
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Five “stored serviceable” steam locomotives occupy a track outside the Great Northern roundhouse at Kelly Lake, Minn., the home terminal…
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The cook on a Korean War-era troop train out of Fort George G. Meade, Md., stokes the kitchen car’s coal…
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Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 3530 is near Pleasant Valley, Idaho, with time freight 655 in the late 1940s or early ’50s.…
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In September 1954, New York Central 2-8-2 1305 wades through the weeds on a branch line extending from East Alton…
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A dramatic nighttime photo shows an oil train on the Erie Railroad during World War II, when German submarines menaced…
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A Railway Post Office clerk looks out from a doorway during a stop at Waterloo, Iowa, in April 1967. The…
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