New Haven wire train

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Car W-933, converted from an old baggage car, is part of a five-car New Haven wire train based out of New Rochelle, N.Y. The platform on the roof provides a place for workers to stand as they repair the overhead catenary. Bruce Owen Nett photo […]

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NYC North Country local

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New York Central train 175, having come up overnight from New York City, stands at Canton, N.Y., between Watertown and Massena on the St. Lawrence Division, as a truckload of mail is loaded in 1959. Theodore Shrady photo […]

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Coast Line operator

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Mrs. L. H. McBratney, operator at Atlantic Coast Line’s WG Tower in Florence, S.C., sends a telegraph message during her third-trick shift in August 1957. William D. Middleton photo […]

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L&N FP7 on a local

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Louisville & Nashville FP7 571 had not been long out of EMD’s plant at La Grange, Ill., when it breezed through London, Ky., with Cincinnati–Knoxville local No. 29 on May 25, 1952. Ed Theisinger photo […]

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Atlantic City-bound Atlantic

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Pennsylvania Railroad E6s 4-4-2 759 stands on the upper level tracks at 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, waiting to depart with a Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines train from Broad Street Station to Atlantic City in May 1937. E. Stanley Hart Jr. photo […]

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B&O’s modern Pittsburgh station

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Baltimore & Ohio’s Grant Street Station on the north bank of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh opened in 1957 after a road project claimed the road’s grand 1888 depot nearby. B&O’s through trains had long since switched to the P&LE depot on the south side of the Mon. Green Street closed in 1989 with the […]

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Wood-burning Prairie

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The engineer oils the valve gear of Brooks-Scanlon Corp. No. 5, a cabbage-stacked, wood-burning 2-6-2 that hauled forest products in Florida. Note the antlers and candlesticks adorning the headlight. Frank Clodfelter photo […]

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Stored Great Northern power

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Five “stored serviceable” steam locomotives occupy a track outside the Great Northern roundhouse at Kelly Lake, Minn., the home terminal for GN’s Minnesota iron-ore operations, in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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