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Action on the Front Range
Mar 14, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Action on the Front Range

GP30s stand in the foreground as F9s lead the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr up the Front Range toward the Moffat…

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Unloading on a car float
Mar 12, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Unloading on a car float

A worker unloads produce from refrigerator cars on a Pennsylvania Railroad car float in New York harbor in 1939. This…

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Troubled times
Mar 11, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Troubled times

Rolling through Marengo, Iowa, in May 1979 was this Rock Island freight with GP38-2 No. 4305 leading. This Davenport–Des Moines…

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Train time in New Orleans
Mar 10, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Train time in New Orleans

Passengers walk out to Missouri Pacific’s Orleanean, loading on Track 4 of recently opened New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in…

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Steam and diesel on the Union Pacific
Mar 5, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Steam and diesel on the Union Pacific

June 13, 1950, finds three Fairbanks-Morse H20-44 end-cab road-switchers and 4-8-2 No. 7019 at Union Pacific’s San Bernardino (Calif.) engine…

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South Wind heading north
Mar 4, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

South Wind heading north

Streamlined Louisville & Nashville 4-6-2 275 departs Birmingham, Ala., with the every-third-day South Wind from Miami to Chicago on February 4, 1941. James…

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Seashore Lines Budd Car
Mar 3, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Seashore Lines Budd Car

One of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines’ 12 Budd Rail Diesel Cars pauses at Collingswood, N.J., about 3 miles out of…

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Piggyback on the Wabash
Feb 28, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Piggyback on the Wabash

Several piggyback cars head northbound on the Wabash at Forrest, Ill., en route to Chicago in March 1960. In a…

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Photo of the Day
Feb 27, 2025·Photo of the Day·Classic Trains

Photo of the Day

This 40-foot Canadian National boxcar was built in November 1923 and was still in service in the 1970s. The car…

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