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B&O “Dockside” 0-4-0T
Feb 6, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O “Dockside” 0-4-0T

Baltimore & Ohio No. 9 is one of four class C-16 0-4-0T switchers built in 1912 to work tight-radius street…

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Lackawanna’s great Pequest Fill
Feb 5, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Lackawanna’s great Pequest Fill

A 4-8-4 leads a freight east across the Lackawanna Railroad’s colossal Pequest Fill. At more than 3 miles long, Pequest…

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Retail railroading
Feb 4, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Retail railroading

In a scene far removed from today’s unit and intermodal trains, a small boy watches as a shipment is loaded…

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PRR’s first passenger diesel
Feb 3, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

PRR’s first passenger diesel

Pennsylvania E7A 5901, one of the units constituting the big road’s first passenger diesel, teams up with an E7B and…

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GG1 to the rescue
Feb 3, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

GG1 to the rescue

Amtrak E60CH 966 on the Washington-bound Murray Hill has become disabled just south of Bowie, Md., on March 26, 1976.…

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Santa Fe’s Barstow Yard
Feb 2, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Santa Fe’s Barstow Yard

An early-1904s view of the Santa Fe’s big freight yard at Barstow, Calif., shows, at the left side of the…

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Western corner of the B&O
Jan 30, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Western corner of the B&O

Consolidation 2836 steams across a country road at Junction, Ill., with the every-other-day freight between Flora and Shawneetown in September…

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Classic logging Mallet
Jan 29, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Classic logging Mallet

The 2-6-6-2T Mallet, exemplified by Weyerhauser No. 9, was perhaps the ultimate development of the logging locomotive. Compact, powerful, and…

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Rock Island 4-8-4 at Joliet
Jan 28, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Rock Island 4-8-4 at Joliet

Rock Island class R-67 Northern 5114 has just passed Joliet (Ill.) Union Station and crossed the GM&O/ATSF diamond as it…

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Reading Pacific on the PRSL
Jan 27, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Reading Pacific on the PRSL

Characteristic of the indignities suffered by steam in its final years, Reading G-3 Pacific 215, built in 1948 as a…

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Quiet Sunday on the DT&I
Jan 26, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Quiet Sunday on the DT&I

Mikados, an 0-8-0, and an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad Consolidation are arrayed around the turntable at Detroit, Toledo & Ironton’s Flat Rock…

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Reading Co. Camelback Ten-Wheeler
Jan 23, 2026·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Reading Co. Camelback Ten-Wheeler

As a crossing watchman stands guard, Reading Camelback 4-6-0 No. 608 brings a Newtown, Pa.–Philadelphia local into Fox Chase station…

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