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Pittsburg & Shawmut coal train
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Pittsburg & Shawmut coal train

Three yellow-and-red SW9s move a cut of hopper cars out of the coal-cleaning plant at Ringgold, Pa. in the mid-1950s.…

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Rush hour on the Erie
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Rush hour on the Erie

Pacifics of three different classes are poised to depart the Erie’s Jersey City passenger terminal with outbound commuter trains at…

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Santa Fe reefers in Arizona
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe reefers in Arizona

Four F7s ease a train of refrigerator cars around one of the many curves on the original line between Supai…

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Scenic Limited at Minturn
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Scenic Limited at Minturn

Rio Grande 2-8-8-2 3608 and 4-8-4 1800 stand at Minturn, Colo., with the eastbound Scenic Limited in summer 1938. R.…

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Taxi stand at NOUPT
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Taxi stand at NOUPT

An usher at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal carries luggage and whistles for a cab at the depot’s taxi stand…

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Mississippi Central work train
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Mississippi Central work train

Mikado 131 of the Mississippi Central, a 150-mile line linking Natchez and Hattiesburg, Miss., heads a work train assisting in…

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Mountains on the prairie
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Mountains on the prairie

Illinois Central 4-8-2s pass at speed on the double track near Gilman in September 1954. Engine 2539 is southbound, 2418…

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New Haven wire train
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

New Haven wire train

Car W-933, converted from an old baggage car, is part of a five-car New Haven wire train based out of…

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NYC North Country local
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

NYC North Country local

New York Central train 175, having come up overnight from New York City, stands at Canton, N.Y., between Watertown and…

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Coast Line operator
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Coast Line operator

Mrs. L. H. McBratney, operator at Atlantic Coast Line’s WG Tower in Florence, S.C., sends a telegraph message during her…

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Daylight along the Pacific
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Daylight along the Pacific

Southern Pacific’s San Francisco–Los Angeles Daylight heads south beside the shimmering Pacific Ocean in the early 1940s. Classic Trains coll. [...]Read…

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Evening at CUT’s roundhouse
Oct 20, 2018·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Evening at CUT’s roundhouse

New York Central 4-8-2 3008 looks across the turntable at the Cincinnati Union Terminal roundhouse one evening in September 1954.…

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