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Cereal transporter
Section: Photo of the Day
Lackawanna MUs
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Steam booster
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F is for freight
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Minnesota identity crisis
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Belfast & Moosehead Lake No. 18
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CCC special on Tennessee Pass
A 2-8-8-2 assists a 4-8-2 on a special Denver & Rio Grande Western train carrying Civilian Conservation Corps workers climbing Tennessee Pass near Mitchell, Colo., in March 1940. R. H. Kindig photo […]
Western Maryland 2-10-0 pusher
Engine 1126, one of Western Maryland’s colossal class I-2 Decapods, assists a train upgrade at Helmstetter’s Curve west of Cumberland, Md., in May 1952. Ed Theisinger photo […]
Wartime in Washington
In a scene typical of World War II-era train travel, passengers stream off Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania trains at Washington Union Station. Harold M. Lambert photo […]
Rio Grande tripleheader
Three locomotives – a 2-8-2, 2-8-8-2, and 4-8-4 – start the Rio Grande’s eastbound Royal Gorge out of Minturn, Colo., on Aug. 30, 1947. Ahead for the 18-car train: Tennessee Pass. C. L. Carson photo […]
Typical second-generation road-switcher
Grand Trunk Western GP38-2 5849 is a fairly typical example of the more than 2,200 of the four-axle road units that were built by Electro-Motive Division between 1972 and 1986. Cody Grivno photo […]
Troop train Pullman porter
At Fort George G. Meade, Md., the porter assigned to the rear Pullman of a troop train watches as supplies are loaded aboard the kitchen car of another train. It’s May 1953 — two months before the end of the Korean War. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
