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En route from Philadelphia’s Budd Co. to its owner, Santa Fe Railway Rail Diesel Car DC-192 is added to the rear of the Reading’s Harrisburg Special at RDG’s Outer Station in Reading, Pa., in May 1952. At right, a Reading G-3 Pacific stands with another passenger train. George W. Gerhart photo […]
The Chesapeake & Ohio and Clinchfield met end-to-end at this yard at Elkhorn City, Ky. In this misty 1973 scene, a C&O train is ready to head north with a string of hopper cars from the Clinchfield. Tony Koester photo […]
CSX GP40-2 No. 6204 and B36-7 No. 5875 work a maintenance extra at Cedar Hill Yard in North Haven, Conn., on June 15, 2009. Photo by Thomas Mik […]
Union Pacific GP38-2 No. 648 switches customers on an industrial spur in New Berlin, Wis. The engine, built for Missouri Pacific in 1977, may no longer head road freights, but performs meaningful work nonetheless, providing service to local warehouses and factories. Photo by Matt Van Hattem […]
Canadian National grain train G884 heads back east with three CSX locomotives on Jan. 19, 2014. The train is operating on trackage rights over BNSF Railway’s Aurora Subdivision from East Dubuque to Portage, Ill. Photo by Matt Krause […]
The Pennsylvania’s one-of-a-kind class S1 6-4-4-6 duplex drive No. 6100 shrugs off an early Chicago winter snow storm as it pauses at Englewood Union Station with the eastbound Manhattan Limited in November 1939. Harold Stirton photo […]
Santa Fe trains 93, the West Texas Express, and 94, the Eastern Express, were the Amarillo–Lubbock connection for the San Francisco Chief. Between 1955 and 1965, the trains looked like this: an E8M (rebuilt from an E1), baggage-express car, coach, and sleeper. Fred M. Springer photo […]
An A-B-B-A set of Santa Fe FT diesels leads a westbound freight just below famous Tehachapi Loop in 1949. This train met an eastbound Southern Pacific freight at Walong siding on the Loop itself; steam from the SP train’s cab-forward helper is visible in the distance. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
CSX intermodal train Q124 rolls northbound on the main line at Lineville, Ala., as a Herzog ballast train awaits in the siding on Sept. 30, 2011. Photo by Bradley Bates […]
Handsome Western Maryland 4-6-2 No. 204 is ready to depart the road’s Hillen Street station in Baltimore with the daily train to Hagerstown, Md., in April 1951. Russ Wilcox photo […]
Norfolk Southern intermodal train No. 215 passes a stopped freight with Canadian Pacific power at Faulconer, Ky., on the CNO&TP First District on Feb. 29, 2016. Photo by Jeff Wagoner […]
Two Union Pacific trains idle side-by-side just west of Southwest Drive while waiting permission to continue east through the Cheyenne, Wyo., yard on Aug. 20, 2013. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
