White River Junction

Steam and diesel locomotives with trains in curved yard

White River Junction A steam-powered, heavyweight passenger train passes freight JS4 departing the Boston & Maine’s White River Junction, Vt., yard with an A-B set of F units in 1947. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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Train 447

Three diesel locomotives in yard

Train 477 Train 477 out of Chicago holds the westward main track at Butler, Chicago & North Western’s principal Milwaukee-area yard and site of the Wisconsin Division headquarters, in spring 1984. Chris Burger photo […]

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Ambassador

Diesel powered passenger train on river bridge

Ambassador The northbound day train to Montreal, known as the Ambassador, crosses the Connecticut River near Windsor, Vt. It exemplifies the mixed consist the train carried of Boston & Maine, Central Vermont, and New Haven equipment. […]

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Train 4

Steam locomotive with passenger train

Train 4 Pere Marquette’s unnamed Grand Rapids–Detroit train 4 rolls through Trowbridge, Mich., in 1940. Locomotive 712 is one of 12 class SP-3 4-6-2 Pacifics built by Alco’s Brooks works in January 1921. Classic Trains collection […]

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Camelback ‘Comet’

Steam locomotive waits by water tower

Camelback Comet Jersey Central Camelback 592 (now preserved in Baltimore) pinch-hits for a regularly assigned 4-6-2 on the Blue Comet at Hammonton, N.J., in the 1930s. With drivers up to 86 inches, Atlantics ruled on fast trains in the 1890s and 1900s before Pacifics superseded them. Granville Thomas photo […]

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Passenger Geep

Nose of diesel locomotive in black and white

Passenger Geep Southern Railway GP7 No. 2164 was in local service in eastern North Carolina when this image was made in September 1965. Note the steam generator exhaust stack to the right of the bell. Curt Tillotson Jr. photo […]

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