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The light fades on the Sidney, Ohio, depot on April 13, 2012, as westbound train Q377 rolls by. Like many other organizations charged with historic preservation, the Sidney Big Four Passenger Station Preservation Association is just keeping everything standing … for now. Photo by Brian M. Schmidt […]
CSX train Q137 rolls through Sherwood, Ohio, without much local fanfare on July 30, 2011. This westbound intermodal train is operating over the former Baltimore & Ohio main line on its way to Chicago on this fading summer evening. Photo by Brent Kneebush […]
Two Norfolk Southern GP38-2s idle in pre-drawn murkiness at Conrail’s Livernois Yard in Detroit on May 18, 2012. Photo by Matt Van Hattem […]
Norfolk Southern GP18 No. 1 switches in the Chocowinity, N.C., yard, preparing a train for the Texas Gulf phosphate plant on Oct. 28, 1973. Photo by William J. Husa Jr. […]
Erie Lackawanna train “DAYTON 97” rolls west through Richwood, Ohio, bound for its namesake city on July 7, 1973. The train originated in Marion, Ohio, and backed east across the double track main lines of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western before beginning its westward journey on the Dayton Branch. Photo by Russell […]
Union Pacific 4-8-4 803 and a Southern Pacific E7 wait outside Los Angeles Union Passenger terminal in the late 1940s, ready to back down to their respective trains. The E7 is for the Golden State, while the 4-8-4 is likely for the Los Angeles Limited. Herbert Johnson photo […]
Baldwin AS416 No. 1609 rattles across the diamond at Boylan Tower in Raleigh, N.C., on Aug. 29, 1969, while Southern Railway train No. 22 waits for its turn. The NS unit has 36 cars in tow as it heads south with local freight No. 49. Photo by Curt Tillotson Jr. […]
Two Fairbanks-Morse diesels cross a bridge at Slab Fork, W.Va., in the 1950s in a photo by FM’s company photographer. Collection of Lewis A. Harlow […]
Virginian Fairbanks-Morse units Nos. 20 and 39 leave Victoria, Va., on a westbound empty hopper train in March 1956. Norfolk Southern has revived this paint scheme on its 2012 heritage units. Photo by Herbert H. Harwood Jr. […]
Norfolk Southern (Crewe-to-Hopewell turn) freight V-11 passes the Petersburg, Va., Union Station as it heads eastbound toward Broadway Yard on May 11, 2012. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
Norfolk Southern Crewe-to-Hopewell turn V-11 arrives at Petersburg Yard in Virginia before making a set off on May 11, 2012. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
An eastbound run through train between the Southern Pacific and Seaboard Coast Line between Houston, Texas, and Jacksonville, Fla., rumbles through Orange, Texas, behind a trio of SCL units, two U30Bs and a GP30. The date is May 1972. Photo by J. Parker Lamb Jr. […]
