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In November 1953, Canadian Pacific 4-6-0 No. 1105, being prepared for a day’s work at Chipman, New Brunswick, steams ahead of 4-4-0 No. 29, which the Ten-Wheeler had just pulled out of the enginehouse. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
The last Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad train out of Baltimore crosses the trestle at Sharon, Md., on Aug. 5, 1958. Lawrence W. Sagle photo […]
Ex-Monon 2-8-2s face each other in the Tennessee Railroad’s yard at Oneida, Tenn., where the coal-hauling short line met Southern’s CNO&TP main, late one afternoon in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Four Grand Trunk Western passenger trains meet at Durand, Mich., in July 1950. A streamlined 4-8-4 has just arrived with No. 17; visible east of the depot is a car from No. 38, in from Alpena; Pacific 5633 is on No. 21; and Pacific 5629, having cut off from No. 56 to take water, waits […]
St. Louis-San Francisco No. 2005 Winchester has the grilles and portholes of an E8, but it’s really an E7, as indicated by the louvers behind the cab door. For the sake of appearance, Frisco modified its E7As to look like its E8As. All were red with gold striping and silver trucks. SLSF photo […]
E7 No. 5879 had the honors of pulling the first regularly scheduled Pennsy diesel run on the joint PRR-Jersey Central New York & Long Branch in April 1956. Prior to this, K4s Pacifics handled PRR trains on the NY&LB. Don Wood photo […]
Riding the pilot beam of a big 2-8-8-2, the head brakeman on Rio Grande Extra 3602 West waves to the Exposition Flyer as his freight pulls into the siding at Tolland, Colo., to meet the Oakland–Chicago Limited. W.C. Stearns photo […]
Consolidation 3127 climbs toward Cutler Summit with the first cut of a train the elderly 2-8-0 is doubling up the hill. This is Baltimore & Ohio’s former Buffalo & Susquehanna line near the New York-Pennsylvania boundary in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 20, 1948, specially cleaned and inspected Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 835 eases President Harry S. Truman’s campaign train into Denver Union Station. Elmer Treolar photo […]
A Southern Railway 4-8-2 leads a troop train near Craggy, N.C., in August 1944. The train is en route from Knoxville, Tenn., to Asheville, N.C. Frank Clodfelter photo […]
Southern Pacific narrow-gauge 4-6-0 No. 22 nears Keeler, Calif., with a freight in May 1940. The Ten-Wheeler was originally Florence & Cripple Creek No. 22, an 1899 product of Schenectady, and then became Nevada-California-Oregon No. 22 before the equipment was relettered for the SP. F.J. Peterson photo […]
Four SD24s traverse one of the many fills on the Santa Fe’s new alignment between Williams and Crookton, Ariz., in 1961. Don Sims photo […]
