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SP yard at Dunsmuir, Calif.
Oct 22, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

SP yard at Dunsmuir, Calif.

With Mt. Shasta rising in the background, a Baldwin road-switcher works the Southern Pacific yard at Dunsmuir, Calif., in the…

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GG1 helping a Metroliner
Oct 21, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

GG1 helping a Metroliner

Amtrak GG1 No. 912 dashes through the snow at Bowie, Md., with a four-car Metroliner train in February 1978. The…

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B&O Q-4 Mikado in Indiana
Oct 20, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O Q-4 Mikado in Indiana

Baltimore & Ohio class Q-4 2-8-2 No. 4479 steps along a manicured right of way with a westbound freight near…

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Humping at North Platte
Oct 17, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Humping at North Platte

Union Pacific NW2 No. 1091, with extra ballast and low-speed gearing, shoves the last cars of a freight train up…

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Inside State Line Tower
Oct 14, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Inside State Line Tower

An operator pulls the armstrong levers to align a route at busy State Line Tower, near Hammond, Ind., on the…

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SP logging train
Oct 13, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

SP logging train

A Southern Pacific 2-8-0 pulls a log train on the Cloudcroft branch near Alamogordo, N.Mex. This view is from 1946,…

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Grand Central Station, Chicago
Oct 9, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Grand Central Station, Chicago

The Baltimore & Ohio’s passenger terminal in Chicago was Grand Central Station, built in 1890 to the plans of noted…

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NP 4-6-6-4 at Livingston, Mont.
Oct 3, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NP 4-6-6-4 at Livingston, Mont.

As trackworkers tend to a frozen switch, Northern Pacific 4-6-6-4 No. 5122 prepares to head east out of Livingston, Mont.,…

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UP and SP at LAUPT
Oct 2, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

UP and SP at LAUPT

Union Pacific 4-8-4 803 and a Southern Pacific E7 wait outside Los Angeles Union Passenger terminal in the late 1940s,…

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