E6 with L&N’s Humming Bird

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A single E6 diesel leads Louisville & Nashville’s Cincinnati–New Orleans Humming Bird through Turner, Ky., in 1948. A rebuilt heavyweight sleeper trails the original six lightweight cars of the streamliner. L&N photo […]

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Doubleheading up the Front Range

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Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 1146 helps 2-8-8-2 Mallet 3406 hoist a 27-car freight up the 2-percent grade between Crags and Crescent, Colo., in July 1938. Both engines have tank cars behind them for extra water capacity. R. H. Kindig photo […]

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Burlington’s Galesburg station at night

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This 1940s night view of Galesburg shows the lineup of carts for hauling mail and express. Galesburg was on the CB&Q’s Chicago-to-Denver line, with additional lines heading north to the Twin Cities, southwest to Kansas City and St. Louis, and south toward Centralia, Ill. Henry J. McCord photo […]

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Atlantic on a local

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Chesapeake & Ohio 4-4-2 No. 281, stands at the Monon’s Hammond, Ind., station, ready for the 8:45 a.m. departure on Oct. 5, 1946, of the C&O’s local train to Cincinnati. L.B. Herrin photo […]

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NYC in central Pennsylvania

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New York Central Alco FA diesels lead a freight near Jersey Shore, Pa., at the south end of Pine Creek Gorge – the “Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania” – in 1952. This photo was on the cover of the first issue of Classic Trains, back in early 2000. William P. Price photo […]

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