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Baldwin beauties
Sep 5, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Baldwin beauties

Two Baldwin-built DR-6-4-20 “Sharknose” diesels depart Jersey City with the Broker in 1960. The pinstripe scheme was designed in 1934 for the…

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B&O steam
Sep 4, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O steam

In 1955, Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 4443 pulls an eastbound coal train past the yard at Lumberton, W.Va., where the…

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Alcos for Ford
Sep 3, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Alcos for Ford

At least five Alco-built diesel switchers line up at Ford Motor Co.’s Dearborn, Mich., plant. Did you really think the…

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‘Rail to Trail’
Sep 2, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

‘Rail to Trail’

A stagecoach, steam locomotive, and F7 in Southern Pacific’s “black widow” paint scheme gather at a “Rail to Trail” pageant…

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Sharks on the Monongahela
Aug 30, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Sharks on the Monongahela

Two Baldwin RF16 “Sharknose” diesels of the Monongahela Railroad lug a train of empty coal hoppers along the carrier’s namesake…

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Santa Fe’s celebrity PAs
Aug 29, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe’s celebrity PAs

Alco and Santa Fe pulled out all the stops when the road bought the first of the builder’s 2,000 h.p.…

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Panama Limited publicity photo
Aug 28, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Panama Limited publicity photo

Two E6 diesels pose grandly with Illinois Central’s newly streamlined all-Pullman Panama Limited in an early-1940s publicity photo. Electro-Motive photo [...]Read…

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Oil train on Cranberry Grade
Aug 23, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Oil train on Cranberry Grade

Two 2-8-8-0 Mallets assist a train of oil-laden tank cars up Baltimore & Ohio’s 2.4-percent Cranberry Grade to Terra Alta,…

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NYC’s Riley on the IC
Aug 22, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NYC’s Riley on the IC

New York Central’s Chicago–Cincinnati streamliner, the James Whitcomb Riley, speeds past Illinois Central’s suburban-train station at 75th Street on the…

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NH 4-6-4 with the Yankee Clipper
Aug 21, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NH 4-6-4 with the Yankee Clipper

Streamlined class I-5 Hudson 1406 accelerates the 15 cars of the New Haven’s westbound Yankee Clipper away from New London,…

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Morning Zephyr in the snow
Aug 20, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Morning Zephyr in the snow

Burlington Route’s Chicago–Minneapolis Morning Zephyr forges west at Downers Grove, Ill., on a snowy January 13, 1948. The six-car train carries four…

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Meet on the Rio Grande
Aug 19, 2024·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Meet on the Rio Grande

D&RGW SD40T-2s on a coal drag off the Craig Branch hold the main line for a meet with westbound freight…

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