Train Pics

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Northern Pacific 4-8-4 26511 rumbles high above the Sheyenne River valley as it rolls a freight west at Valley City,
North Dakota. The NP in 1926 ordered the first 4-8-4 type locomotives, which were at first dubbed the "Northern Pacific"
type, soon shortened to Northern.

Photo: Linn H. Westcott

 

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A trackside observer gives a wave to Chesapeake & Ohio class J-3 4-8-4 604, working hard on a heavy passenger train.
C&O called its 4-8-4s Greenbriers.

Photo: Classic Trains collection

 

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At St. Paul Union Depot, Great Northern 4-8-4 2585 backs down to couple onto the Empire Builder, in from Chicago via
the Burlington Route. Getting under way is Omaha Road (a Chicago & North Western affiliate) heavy Pacific 602 with
an Omaha-Minneapolis train. Off to the side in this 1945 scene is the union depot company's GE 44-ton diesel, No. 441.

Photo: William J. Pontin

 

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A 4-8-4 leads a freight east across the Lackawanna Railroad's colossal Pequest Fill. At more than 3 miles long, Pequest
was a major feature of the road's 28.5-mile cutoff across the rough terrain of northern New Jersey.
The line below is the Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad.

Photo: Wayne Brumbaugh

 

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New York Central 4-8-4 No. 6007 departs Chicago's La Salle Street Station with the New England States for Cleveland,
Buffalo, and Boston in October 1950.

Photo: Bob Borcherding

 

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Norfolk & Western class J 4-8-4 No. 609 stands with a set of new cars for the Powhatan Arrow at Williamson, W.Va.,
during a 1950 display tour.

Photo: N&W

 

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A Daylight 4-8-4 and a 4-8-2 doublehead the Los Angeles-bound San Joaquin Daylight upgrade at Allard, Calif., a dozen
miles north of famous Tehachapi Loop, in May 1953.

Photo: W.E. Malloy Jr.

 

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The engineer and fireman in the cab of Canadian National 4-8-4 6179 wait for men on the ground to finish their work
on the engine so it can depart Riviere du Loup, Quebec, with the Maritime Express in October 1954.

Photo: Philip R. Hastings

 

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Erie Lackawanna EL DL&W Jersey City Night Scene Original Kodachrome Slide | eBay

EL night scene at Jersey City, New Jersey in January 1963.

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