Diesels victorious

  The West Chester Railroad’s May 2018 photo charter featured Alco RS18 No. 1803 with three freight cars, a baggage car, and a passenger car. The former Pennsylvania Railroad line still features catenary supports, a reminder of its days as a Philadelphia commuter line. Photo by Bill Monaghan […]

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No trespassing

  A Napoleon, Defiance & Western train passes the former Wabash Railroad freight house in Napoleon, Ohio, on Oct. 19, 2014. At far right is reminder of another previous owner of the line. Photo by Brian Schmidt   […]

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Escarpment

You don’t need to go west to find the mountains. Canadian Pacific ES440AC No. 8800 is down to hardly a crawl going up and over the Niagara Escarpment on the Galt Sub between Milton and Guelph Junction, Ontario. Photo by Brandon Muir […]

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Tortoise and the hare

  A southbound Amtrak Acela Express overtakes an outbound empty Norfolk Southern oil train on the Northeast Corridor lead by the Central of New Jersey-painted heritage unit near Elkton, Md., on Jan. 4, 2015. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]

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Tread lightly

  Recent heavy rains have caused standing water in many parts of central Ohio. Here, Norfolk Southern No. 5228 shoves local L55 over the former Pennsylvania Railroad “Panhandle” main line to pick up some cars at Circleville Ag, just east of downtown Circleville, Ohio. Photo by Carlos Ferran […]

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10,000th

  On Feb. 18, 2018, the 10,000th delivery of a Boeing 737 fuselage manufactured in Wichita, Kan., arrived in Seattle on car MTTX 971483. Note the “10,000 Deliveries” marking spray-painted ahead of the wing base. Photo by David Honan  […]

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Shortline Ten-Wheeler

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Engine 304 of western New York state short line Dansville & Mount Morris, pictured in September 1955, was built in 1905 by Alco’s Brooks plant for the Nickel Plate Road. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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PRR Congressional observation car

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During a preview trip, members of the press enjoy one of the new parlor-lounge-observation cars the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired from Budd for the March 1952 re-equipping of the Congressional and Senator. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]

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SCL piggyback train

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Two Seaboard Coast Line GP40s lead a fast piggyback train through Neuse, N.C., a few miles north of Raleigh on the former Seaboard Air Line main line in June 1979. Curt Tillotson Jr. photo […]

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