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Tag: Photo of the Day

Big day for the Broadway

By | March 4, 2024
20140312

It’s June 15, 1938, the date on which the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Broadway Limited made its debut as a streamlined train. K4s 3768, given a streamlined cowling two years previously, handled the train out of Chicago. Classic Trains collection […]

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1920 - 1945, Fallen Flags, History, Passenger/Transit, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Steam Locomotive

Baltimore & Annapolis car at Carroll Tower

By | March 1, 2024
20140313

Having just departed its Baltimore terminal adjacent to B&O’s Camden Street Station, a Baltimore & Annapolis car curves off B&O trackage and onto B&A’s line to Annapolis at Carroll Tower in 1946. William D. Middleton photo […]

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged Model Rectifier Corp., Northeast, Passenger/Transit, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Short Lines/Regionals, Structures

Santa Fe E6 diesels at 21st Street

By | February 29, 2024
20151207

Unit 13 leads an A-B set of Santa Fe E6 diesels across the diamonds at 21st Street, Chicago, on an outbound passenger train in the 1950s. Classic Trains coll. […]

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1946 - 1970, Diesel Locomotives, Fallen Flags, History, Midwest, Passenger/Transit, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos

Slim Princess, wide valley

By | February 28, 2024
20151215

Southern Pacific’s narrow-gauge line in the vast Owens Valley of California was known as the “Slim Princess.” Here a single freight car separates engine from caboose near Zurich (Big Pine) in July 1959. William H. Mills photo […]

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1946 - 1970, California, Fallen Flags, History, Narrow Gauge & Industrial, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Steam Locomotive2 Comments

Q GP30s at Rochelle

By | February 27, 2024
Four red-and-gray diesels pull a freight through an interlocking on a clear winter day

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1946 - 1970, Diesel Locomotives, Fallen Flags, Freight, History, Midwest, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos

Freight car congress

By | February 26, 2024
The roofs of several freight cars are seen in a black-and-white photo of a rail yard

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged Fallen Flags, Freight, History, Midwest, Photo of the Day, Photos, Rolling Stock

Penn Central Cabin

By | February 23, 2024
A black-and-white photo of a Penn Central caboose with a white side stripe

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1946 - 1970, Fallen Flags, Freight, History, Northeast, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Rolling Stock

Air repeater

By | February 22, 2024
A Cascade Green air repeater car is seen in a train in a rail yard

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1971 - 1999, Fallen Flags, Freight, History, Midwest, Passenger/Transit, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Railroad Operations

Santa Fe FT freight

By | February 21, 2024
A black-and-white photo of a manifest freight train headed by a pair of EMD FT diesels running through the San Fernando Valley in California.

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1946 - 1970, California, Diesel Locomotives, Fallen Flags, Freight, History, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos

Pacemaker Freight Service

By | February 20, 2024
A red-and-gray New York Central boxcar labeled “Pacemaker Freight Service.”

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1946 - 1970, Fallen Flags, Freight, History, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Railroad Operations, Rolling Stock

20th Century Limited

By | February 19, 2024
A black-and-white photo of the New York Central passenger train 20th Century Limited receding into the distance

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged 1946 - 1970, Fallen Flags, History, Northeast, Passenger/Transit, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Rolling Stock

Big Four

By | February 16, 2024
An HO scale scene of tank cars spotted at a loading rack, with storage tanks and an oil well nearby

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Posted in Photo of the DayTagged Fallen Flags, History, Midwest, Photo of the Day, Photos, Photos and Videos, Pre - 1920, Steam Locomotive
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