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Indiana shortline caboose
Mar 31, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Indiana shortline caboose

In southwest Indiana, well-kept caboose 101 brings up the rear of a train on the Algers, Winslow & Western, a…

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High-speed steam action
Mar 28, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

High-speed steam action

Louisville & Nashville 4-8-2 No. 407 on Cincinnati–Birmingham train 7 passes 2-8-0 No. 1212 on a northbound freight on double…

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Hiawatha departing Milwaukee
Mar 27, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Hiawatha departing Milwaukee

A rakish Otto Kuhler–designed observation car brings up the rear of a Hiawatha departing Milwaukee, 85 miles from the end…

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First run of the Olympian Hiawatha
Mar 26, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

First run of the Olympian Hiawatha

Crowds have gathered at Tacoma, Wash., on June 29, 1947, to witness the departure of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha…

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E5 diesels on the Texas Zephyr
Mar 25, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

E5 diesels on the Texas Zephyr

Colorado & Southern’s Denver–Dallas Texas Zephyr, led by a pair of rakish E5s from parent Burlington Route, speeds southward through…

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Diesel lineup at New Orleans
Mar 24, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Diesel lineup at New Orleans

Illinois Central, Texas & Pacific, and Kansas City Southern E units plus (barely visible) Louisville & Nashville and Southern Pacific…

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Dewey 1948 campaign train
Mar 21, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Dewey 1948 campaign train

Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 250 moves out of Othello, Wash., with Thomas E. Dewey’s 17-car presidential campaign train on September…

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Burlington “Banana Special”
Mar 20, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Burlington “Banana Special”

Two Burlington Route 2-10-2s power away from Edgemont, S.Dak., with a westbound “Banana Special,” 67 reefers of bananas bound for…

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B&O 2-10-2 on Sand Patch Grade
Mar 18, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

B&O 2-10-2 on Sand Patch Grade

Baltimore & Ohio S-1 2-10-2 6149 descends the west side of the Allegheny Mountains at Keystone, Pa., after crossing the…

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Action on the Mesabi Range
Mar 17, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Action on the Mesabi Range

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-2 has hold of a caboose at Rainy Junction, Minn., on the Mesabi Iron…

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