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Santa Fe FTs in the desert
Dec 12, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe FTs in the desert

Crewmen wave and the white extra flags are taut as four FTs speed a freight west across the desert between…

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Rio Grande 4-8-2 helper
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Rio Grande 4-8-2 helper

Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 1513 pushes hard on the caboose of a 55-car freight climbing the Front Range…

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Skytop sleeper at Milwaukee
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Skytop sleeper at Milwaukee

The Skytop sleeper-observation car of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha, highlighted by plenty of windows and chrome trim, stands at…

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PRR in the New York area
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

PRR in the New York area

This bird’s-eye view map from the April 1946 issue of Trains magazine shows the Pennsylvania’s extensive facilities in the New…

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Low-numbered Pennsy engine
Oct 19, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Low-numbered Pennsy engine

Pennsylvania class L1 Mikado No. 26, trailing an additional tender for extra water capacity, heads a train of empty coal…

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B&O’s Keyser tower
Oct 18, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O’s Keyser tower

The former Baltimore & Ohio tower at Keyser, W.Va., seen here in 2004 under CSX ownership, was a classic “armstrong”…

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Pittsburgh PCCs
Oct 15, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Pittsburgh PCCs

In the 1950s, two Pittsburgh Railways PCC streetcars have left downtown, crossed the Monongahela River on the Smithfield Bridge, passed…

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N&W giants at rest
Oct 10, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

N&W giants at rest

Norfolk & Western class Y6 2-8-8-2 Mallets rest at the Grundy, Va., engine terminal in March 1959. Bruce R. Meyer…

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Chessie Geeps in Akron
Oct 4, 2016·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Chessie Geeps in Akron

A Chessie System train led by two Geeps (ex-B&O and WM) passes under a skewed pony truss bridge of the…

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