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Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-6-0 Mogul 310

Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-6-0 Mogul 310 has only one gondola left to deliver in Story City, Iowa, before returning home in July 1946. The railroad had 877 route miles in the state in 1931, the fifth most for a railroad at the time. Photo by William F. Armstrong […]

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Mountain meet Pennsylvania Railroad GP9s on westbound piggyback train TT1 pass J1 class 2-10-4 No. 6166, which has stopped on the main line near Johnstown, Pa., to take water from an overhead spout, in September 1956. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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B&O steam Baltimore & Ohio S-1 class 2-10-2 No. 6174 backs up the hump at Willard, Ohio, with reefers. The railroad had 125 such locomotives in the class, built by Baldwin and Lima between 1923 and 1926. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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Union Pacific mixed train Consolidation 284 leads Union Pacific train 386, a mixed train on the road’s Idaho Northern Branch, near Smith’s Ferry, Idaho, in December 1947. R. H. Kindig photo […]

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President Pacific at speed Baltimore & Ohio P-7 4-6-2 5310, named President Taylor when built in 1927, pinch-hits for the usual streamlined P-7 on the northbound Cincinnatian at Carlisle, Ohio, in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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Stranger on the Central of Georgia The Tuscan red-painted stainless-steel Pennsylvania Railroad cars of the Chicago–Miami South Wind follow Central of Georgia 4-8-2 488 through Weems, Ala. (9 miles east of Birmingham) on April 4, 1948. The streamliner was detouring over the CofG because of flooding on its normal route. Linn H. Westcott photo […]

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Photo of the Day

20180119

Editor and 2-8-0 From behind the wheel of his car, Trains magazine Editor David P. Morgan watches Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-0 3127 on freight train 160 at a grade crossing near Genesee, Pa., in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

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San Luis Obispo Army camp troop train

Troop train on the SP A doubleheaded troop train passes the Army’s Camp San Luis Obispo as it climbs Cuesta Grade on Southern Pacific’s L.A.–San Francisco Coast Line in the early 1940s. SP photo […]

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PAs on the Pony Express

Union Pacific Pony Express Alco

An Alco PA/PB/PB consist leads the Union Pacific’s Pony Express across the desert near Victorville, Calif., in the early 1950s. The railroad’s 14 PAs and PBs were assigned to passenger service in the West. Donald Sims photo […]

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General motors train of tomorrow

Aboard the Train of Tomorrow’s observation car Moon Glow, the rear car of the General Motors Train of Tomorrow, contained a variety of lounge spaces, including this sunken area underneath the dome. GM photo […]

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