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 […]

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Tonopah & Tidewater’s lonely Pullman line

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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 […]

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SAL piggyback hotshot

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Three GP30s make 60 mph with TT-23, a fast freight composed of 56 piggyback flatcars, at Manson, N.C., in September 1965. Though a normal service, TT-23 was not in the timetable and so ran as an extra, hence the white flags on GP30 517. Curt Tillotson Jr. photo […]

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