Pictured with the engine, left to right, are fireman Dean Gordon, mechanic Phil Reader, and engineer Willie Maine. Chip Sherman SILVER PLUME, Colo. — Georgetown Loop Railroad No. 12, a 1928 Baldwin 2-6-2, ran its last day in Colorado on August 1. The engine will be shipped later in the month to Midwest Central Railroad at […]
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FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Don Colangelo, Delaware-Lackawanna chief mechanical officer, cleans the handrails on C420 No. 405 at Scranton, Pa., on April 9, 2012. FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Colangelo and author Kevin Tomasic discuss Alcos at Tower 60, Scranton, Pa., on April 9, 2012. FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Delaware-Lackawanna grain train SPG09 heads for Horizon […]
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Baldwin AS416 No. 1609 rattles across the diamond at Boylan Tower in Raleigh, N.C., on Aug. 29, 1969, while Southern Railway train No. 22 waits for its turn. The NS unit has 36 cars in tow as it heads south with local freight No. 49. Photo by Curt Tillotson Jr. […]
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Two Fairbanks-Morse diesels cross a bridge at Slab Fork, W.Va., in the 1950s in a photo by FM’s company photographer. Collection of Lewis A. Harlow […]
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FULL SCREEN Andrew J. Russell, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-11750 General Hermann Haupt (rear, center) supervises a construction site in 1863 at Devereaux Station of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Clifton, Virginia. The locomotive bears his name. At right is J. H. Devereaux, superintendent. FULL SCREEN Andrew J. Russell, Library of Congress, LC-B8184-10161 Ornately decorated […]
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Virginian Fairbanks-Morse units Nos. 20 and 39 leave Victoria, Va., on a westbound empty hopper train in March 1956. Norfolk Southern has revived this paint scheme on its 2012 heritage units. Photo by Herbert H. Harwood Jr. […]
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Norfolk Southern (Crewe-to-Hopewell turn) freight V-11 passes the Petersburg, Va., Union Station as it heads eastbound toward Broadway Yard on May 11, 2012. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
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Norfolk Southern Crewe-to-Hopewell turn V-11 arrives at Petersburg Yard in Virginia before making a set off on May 11, 2012. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
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FORT EUSTIS, Va. – On July 25, the U.S. Army Transportation Corps Museum will dedicate restored Alco RSD1 No. 8011, and the museum’s new Rail Pavilion. The Alco is one of 57 units sent to Iran during World War II for the Military Railway Service Corps operated Iranian State Railway. This event will be dedicated […]
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FULL SCREEN Top, photo courtesy of Norfolk Southern Corp.; bottom, Robert Palmer photo Top: The first NS heritage unit, ES44AC No. 8098, poses in Conrail blue at Altoona Shops on March 15, 2012. Bottom: Conrail SD60 6702, GP40-2 3220, and an unidentified GE lead a Philadelphia-to-Bethlehem iron ore train out of Black Rock Tunnel near […]
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