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Double trouble

CSX train Q509 joins the east-west main line in Deshler while train Q365 prepares to depart for Cincinnati in the distance. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]

Big Sky local

Pacific 2119 leads Northern Pacific train 288 east in Silver Bow Canyon, a dozen miles west of Butte, Mont., in the late 1940s. Linn H. Westcott photo […]

NYC’s Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson

New York Central class J-1e 4-6-4 No. 5344 received sheet-metal shrouding in 1934, making it the first streamlined steam locomotive in America. Carl F. Kantola of NYC’s equipment engineering department created the design. The Hudson was named Commodore Vanderbilt after the NYC’s famous early leader, but initially displayed no road number. Glenn Grabill photo […]

Poof!

CSX train Q257 with C40-8W No. 7893 rolls past the signal at MP 51 on the former Toledo & Ohio Central main line three miles north of Arlington, Ohio, on Jan. 19, 2014. Photo by Dale A. DeVene Jr. […]

Siskiyou scene

Southern Pacific SD9 No. 4346 leads a Siskiyou line train through Rice Hill, Ore., on Oct. 27, 1987. Photo by David Lassen […]

Lakeside

Western New York & Pennsylvania Alco C430 No. 432 and C424 No. 4228 haul westbound train OL-1 drifting along the waters of Andover Pond at Andover, N.Y., on the afternoon of Aug. 16, 2009. Photo by Thomas Mik […]

Camouflage

With its Burlington Northern-painted SD40-2 nearly blending into the background, Wisconsin & Southern train T003 eases through Waukesha, Wis., on June 2, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]

PRR E8 exits a tunnel

Pennsylvania Railroad E8 No. 5795 leads train 32, the New York–bound St. Louisan, out of one of the twin tunnels at Spruce Creek, Pa., in the mid-1950s. Don Wood photo […]

Going deep

Norfolk Southern train 11V passes Highland Cut, Pa., on Jan. 18, 2014. Photo by Cynthia Luther […]

Farewell

CSX train Q389 crests “Hicksville Hill” near the Ohio-Indiana line on Track 2 as an empty BNSF-powered coal train waits for a crew on Track 1 in March 2014. The bridge has since been removed. Photo by Joe Kohnen […]