Icing the reefers on the CB&Q
A worker shovels salt into a reefer via a rolling chute at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy’s icing dock in…
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An interior view at Tower 19 near Dallas (Texas) Union Terminal shows the track diagram (“model board”) of the territory…
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New York Central E8 diesels idle at La Salle Street Station, Chicago, awaiting departure with two sections of the 20th…
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A long string of stock cars is tucked in behind Santa Fe 2-8-2 No. 4085 on train 44, the Perishable…
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This is a typical standpipe (also called water crane, water column, or water plug) used to fill steam locomotive tenders…
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A Daylight 4-8-4 and a 4-8-2 doublehead the Los Angeles-bound San Joaquin Daylight upgrade at Allard, Calif., a dozen miles…
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Four F7s take a train of refrigerator cars through a horseshoe curve near Gleed, Ariz., in the 1950s. A major…
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Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 1705 raises an impressive smoke plume as it lifts a troop train up the…
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Wabash E8 1007 brings the Wabash Cannon Ball into Litchfield, Ill., near the beginning of its St. Louis–Detroit run in…
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Electro-Motive 952, completed in August 1949, was the first E8 built. After a stint as a demonstrator, it became Rock…
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Townsfolk of New Lisbon, Wis., inspect Milwaukee Road Class A No. 2 after the 4-4-2 clipped off 14 miles at…
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Dirty Chicago & North Western class H-1 4-8-4 No. 3029 departs Chicago with train 13, a local for Omaha, on…
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