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New York Central Alco FA diesels lead a freight near Jersey Shore, Pa., at the south end of Pine Creek Gorge – the “Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania” – in 1952. This photo was on the cover of the first issue of Classic Trains, back in early 2000. William P. Price photo […]

D&H train 205

Diesel powered passenger train in station wit big stone tower

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Rods-down roster shot

Stationary steam locomotive with man leaning out of the cab window

Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 6312 poses for a classic roster shot portrait with her right-hand side rods in the “down” position favored for such photos. She was one of 60 SOU class Ms-1’s built to the USRA light Mikado design in 1918 and 1922. “CNO&TP” lettering on the can designates assignment to SOU’s Cincinnati, New […]

Burlington Northern 10403

Color photo of steel caboose with streamlined offset cupola.

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C&NW’s Lake Street Tower, Chicago

The diagram in the Lake Street interlocking tower for C&NW’s North Western Terminal in Chicago shows 16 station tracks and the complexity of the trackage at the throat of the terminal. C&NW photo […]

Oregon Trunk mixed

Diesel locomotives with passenger train by station

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TurboTrain

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GM&O Jack Local

Maroon and red diesel locomotives in grade crossing

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Western Maryland’s Baltimore Harbor stronghold

Western Maryland Railway on Baltimore Harbor

An aerial view from about 1940 shows the extensive dockside facilities the Western Maryland maintained at Port Covington on Baltimore Harbor. WM photo […]

Tonopah & Tidewater’s lonely Pullman line

Begun in 1905, the Tonopah & Tidewater extended from the Santa Fe main line at Ludlow, Calif., 160 lonely miles north into Nevada. In the late 1920s T&T acquired a gas-electric car and began handling, in partnership with Union Pacific, a twice-weekly Pullman car that ran from Los Angeles to Death Valley, pictured here before […]