Refined steam

Refined steam

Pennsylvania K4s 4-6-2 No. 5399, built at the railroad’s Juniata shops in 1923, was rebuilt by Lima in 1939 with a front-end throttle and poppet valves to improve performance and efficiency. Photo by Lima Locomotive Works […]

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Profiles in progress

Profiles in progress

Chesapeake & Ohio H-8 2-6-6-6 No. 1647 departs Handley, W.Va., with tidewater coal — a dozen 67-inch driving wheels, 90 loads, lend engine slipping wildly. The railroad had 60 such locomotives, built by Lima in 1941-1948. Photo by Philip R. Hastings […]

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MoPac doubleheader

MoPac doubleheader

Two Missouri Pacific 4-8-4s, Baldwin products of 1943, lead a westbound freight with a long string of hopper cars through Sandy Hook, Mo., about 19 miles west of Jefferson City on the River Line. Photo by C. T. Wood […]

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Midwest Mikado

Midwest Mikado

Minneapolis & St. Louis Mikado No. 627, a 1921 Alco (Brooks) locomotive, charges toward Peoria with a hot freight in a publicity photo. Photo by Minneapolis & St. Louis […]

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Remembering the Great Northern Railway

Steam locomotive with boxcars on prairie

  In 1857 the Minnesota & Pacific Railroad was chartered to build a line from Stillwater, Minnesota, on the St. Croix River, through St. Paul and St. Cloud to St. Vincent, in the northwest corner of the state. The company defaulted after completing a roadbed between St. Paul and St. Cloud, Minnesota, and its charter […]

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