Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Are you looking to learn more about your model railroad, or do you have questions about full-size trains? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers and Trains.com members, where editors answer the questions readers […]
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Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Are you looking to learn more about your model railroad, or do you have questions about full-size trains? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers and Trains.com members, where editors answer the questions readers […]
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Cody answers this question about the Union Pacific GP9 in this video of Ask Trains. Do you have questions about details on diesel locomotives, or would you like to learn more about your model railroad? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers and Trains.com […]
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Two Alco DL109’s roll the New Haven’s crack New York–Boston Merchants Limited through East Haven, Conn., in mid-1947. The last all-parlor-car train in the U.S., the Merchants got coaches in 1949. T. J. Donahue photo […]
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In Chicago, trains of New York Central subsidiary Michigan Central generally used Illinois Central’s lakefront Central Station. Here a Hudson starts the Chicago Mercury on its run to Detroit. The terminal’s arched trainshed was removed in the early 1940s. Richard Luryman photo […]
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Construction of the Lackawanna Railroad’s colossal viaduct over Tunkhannock Creek at Nicholson, Pa., is in its early stages in this photo from Oct. 21, 1913. Nicholson Public Library photo […]
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Baltimore & Ohio class P-5 No. 5227, a USRA light Pacific, hurries through North Bend, Ohio, with overnight St. Louis–Cincinnati local train 30 in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
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Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Click the link to order a downloadable copy of the August 1979 issue, “Kansas City Southern and Amtrak.” Do you have a question? Would you like to learn more about full-size trains? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature […]
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If there is no opening on the bottom, how are wood-chip gondolas unloaded? Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Do you have a question? Would you like to learn more about full-size trains? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers […]
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In a classic postwar publicity photo on a new Chesapeake & Ohio sleeping car, a family enjoys the comforts of a pair of double bedrooms with the dividing partition drawn back to create one large space containing four beds. C&O photo […]
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At Du Bois, Pa., on Baltimore & Ohio’s former Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh lines, a B&O Pacific swings by Tower CM with Pittsburgh–Buffalo train 252, discontinued not long after this September 1955 photo. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
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