New England short line

Providence & Worcester train NR-3, a weekday turn between Plainfield, Conn., and Worcester, Mass., is northbound at Wauregan, Conn., on March 20, 2014. The train has B39-8s Nos. 3906 and 3905 for power. Photo by Gerald Aubin […]

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Whizzer

The Wisconsin & Southern, affectionately known as the “Whizzer” to local railfans, whizzes through Waukesha, Wis., on June 2, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]

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WM 44-tonner

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Western Maryland 76, one of two GE 44-tonners the road had, both built in 1943, does some switching at WM’s Hillen Street terminal in Baltimore in July 1948. H. A. McBride photo […]

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Working on the railroad

Norfolk Southern train 19G, westbound at Lebanon, Pa., is led by SD70s Nos. 2539 and 2557 on Jan. 9, 2014. The track gang is installing new welded rail on both tracks of a 3-mile section of the double-track NS Harrisburg Line through this south-central Pennsylvania city. Photo by Mark W. Hoffman […]

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Coast twilight

A Union Pacific ethanol train led by AC4400CW No. 7007 skirts the Carquinez Strait at sunset. The train is passing Eckley Pier with the wrecked remains of the steamship Garden City in the water. Photo by Brian Roberts […]

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Right-of-way

  Looking out of place, two CSX GEs take Canadian Pacific train No. 470 down North Second Street in Bellevue, Iowa, on Jan. 19, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause   […]

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Local hero

With a short five-car train, Canadian National’s local out of Dubuque, Iowa, has just crossed the Mississippi River and pops out of the short tunnel in East Dubuque, IL. The train will travel down the BNSF Railway using trackage to an industry that CN switches before calling it a day and returning home after dark. Photo […]

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C&EI’s Meadowlark

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E7 diesel 1101 leads Chicago & Eastern Illinois’ southbound Meadowlark at 63rd Street station (“Little Englewood”), Chicago, in the late 1940s. The obscure orange-and-blue streamliner terminated at the unlikely location of Cyprus, Ill. (population 300). William N. Clark photo […]

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