A rare 0-10-2 Union type

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 605 simmers at Proctor, Minn., on a September 1954 night. She’s a rare 0-10-2, of which only nine were built, all for Pittsburgh’s Union Railroad, in 1936-37. They came to sister U.S. Steel road DM&IR in 1949. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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Olympian Hi in Montana

Milwaukee Road Olympian Hiawatha

One of the Milwaukee Road’s six Skytop sleeper-observation cars brings up the rear of the Olympian Hiawatha near Francis, Mont., 100 miles east of Butte, in an early 1950s publicity photo. MILW photo […]

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Erie bay-window caboose

Erie Railroad caboose

Modern steel cabooses, such as Erie bay-window C300 in 1953, included such improvements as on-board radio (with RADIO EQUIPPED lettering and lightning bolts) and electric lighting (note the generator below and to the right of the bay). Erie photo […]

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Freight on the “WAG”

Wellsville, Addison & Galeton Railroad

Wellsville, Addison & Galeton GE center-cab diesel 1700 has a string of the colorful short line’s wood boxcars in tow at Ansonia, Pa., in March 1970. David H. Hamley photo […]

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CNJ Camelback 757

Central Railroad of New Jersey

Central Railroad of New Jersey Camelback 4-6-0 No. 757 accelerates a train out of the Jersey City terminal complex in the late 1940s or early ’50s. William R. Frutchey photo […]

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California Zephyr on a detour

California Zephyr

The California Zephyr shares dual-gauge trackage with a Rio Grande 2-8-0 at Salida, Colo., on June 18, 1951. The CZ shouldn’t be here on D&RGW’s Tennessee Pass line — it’s detouring around a washout on its regular Moffat Tunnel route. Bob Borcherding photo […]

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IC 4-8-2 on the James Whitcomb Riley

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Illinois Central 4-8-2 No. 2452 contrasts with the stainless steel cars of New York Central’s James Whitcomb Riley as the Chicago–Cincinnati streamliner speeds past IC’s 75th Street suburban station on the South Side of Chicago in 1947. The Riley will switch to NYC rails, and power, at Kankakee, Ill. Willard A. Gardner photo […]

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SP’s “Slim Princess” on a stroll

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Southern Pacific’s “Slim Princess” line tackled the rugged and arid territory along the east side of Owens Lake between the Virginia & Truckee and Keeler. Originally the Carson & Colorado, it was renamed for parent SP in 1912. Here oil-burning 4-6-0 No. 8 leads a short train through the desert. Classic Trains collection […]

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