Santa Fe on the Santa Fe
Santa Fe Railway No. 3895, a 2-10-2 Santa Fe type named for the road that originated the wheel arrangement, hauls…
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No. 9806 is one of Chicago River & Indiana’s 21 800 h.p. Lima-Hamilton switchers, built in 1951. The little road’s…
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Western Maryland three-truck Shay No. 6 works a coal plant on the Chaffee (W.Va.) Branch not long after delivery in…
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Conceived in 1907 as an interurban line, Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern never did electrify. In the diesel era, MN&S favored…
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Milwaukee Road’s westbound Morning Hiawatha pauses at Portage, Wis., in October 1965. Tucked behind the E units are several head-end cars, including…
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This view from 1950 looks eastward from the hump of Union Pacific’s newly expanded yard at North Platte, Nebr. Wallace…
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A four-unit set of FT diesels leads a 125-car Burlington Route freight west at Galesburg, Ill., in June 1953. R.…
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Two Gulf, Mobile & Ohio E7 diesels bring the St. Louis–Chicago Alton Limited into the station at Springfield, Ill., in May 1952.…
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At Wheaton, Ill., the motorman of a westbound Chicago Aurora & Elgin train looks back for the highball while the…
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Penn Central and Santa Fe teamed up to provide coast-to-coast transport of containers for Seatrain Lines in August 1972. Here,…
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This “Trackside with Trains” photo contest result comes from August 2018. The theme was “Stations.” Trackside with Trackside was…
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Southern Pacific built this structure, which it called Grand Central Station, in Houston in 1934 to replace an 1886 depot.…
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