Moffat Tunnel car washers

20160413

The Rio Grande equipped both ends of the Moffat Tunnel with high-pressure car-washing sprayers to clean windows in preparation for the splendid views ahead. This is a view out the east portal in 1949. W. H. Mitchell photo […]

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CN 2-8-0 in the rain

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In a 1957 view from a crossing watchman’s tower at Burlington, Ont., elderly Canadian National 2-8-0 2647 passes in heavy rain with a Hamilton–Toronto local freight. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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In profile

  A pair of Iowa Pacific E units rolls west with an excursion train in tow on Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision near Muscoda, Wis., on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]

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GO, west

  A former GO Transit locomotive that once plied freezing-cold rails near Toronto, Ontario, cozies next to palm trees in Riverside, Calif., in October 2013. Photo by Steve Sweeney […]

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Color coordination

  A loaded crude oil train with BNSF Railway power passes a line of matching orange trees on Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line near Otis, Ind., on Oct. 20, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]

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Lackawanna’s great Pequest Fill

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A 4-8-4 leads a freight east across the Lackawanna Railroad’s colossal Pequest Fill. At more than 3 miles long, Pequest was a major feature of the road’s 28.5-mile cutoff across the rough terrain of northern New Jersey. The line below is the Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad. Wayne Brumbaugh photo […]

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Salad shooter

  CSX train Q091, operated for refrigerated logistics provider Railex, passes Deshler, Ohio, on June 14, 2014. The dedicated reefer train is known as the “salad shooter” to many local railfans. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]

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