THE GREAT TRAIN THREAD!!..

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The engine facilities in Milwaukee WI at Chase Yard.
Among the little details in the photograph, the wooden structure for the overhead crane is especially interesting.

 

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East Deerfield Yard on the B&M 1976

 

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June 2023, More than 280 dead and 900 injured after 2 trains derail in India

 

[paulo]

Central Vermont Railway Alco RS11 #3611 in a Grand Trunk Railroad consist at Danville Junction, Maine.
August 24, 1978.

 

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An SW1200RS at Concord, ON on March 04, 1988.

 

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NPBL MP15DC 2428 crossing Granby Ave on the former Virginian Railroad in Norfolk, VA on July 28th, 1989 as it heads to the north end of Norfolk
International Terminal.

 

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50 ton GE at the Babcox Wilcox plant in Cambridge Ont. today.

 

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A boiler explosion in 1947 killed a night watchman

 

[paulo]

Rail Car America 423 (ex RI 423) is idling in Omaha, NE. July 21 1989.

 

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The SD45 locomotives are being gathered around Salt Lake to place in short time storage while the company decides what to do with them. Old Service Pit. Salt Lake Diesel Shop. May, 1985.

 

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CNW 5030B is leading the Dakota 400 at Baraboo, Wl on October 16, 1960.

 

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RS-1 ICG 1280 in October of 1974.

 

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RS-1 ICG 1280 in October of 1974.


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I always loved the bright colors of that orange and white paint scheme

 

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[paulo]

CNW 1699 is showing its age at Butler WI, June 1973.

 

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TOYX Operation Toy Train Display at Maywood Station.

 

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SP 4110, GP2OR, wrecked, Kirkpatrick Blvd crossing, Houston, Texas, June 1977.

 

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Soviet Class KV-4 narrow gauge steam locomotive on trial run near the factory on the trial track of the Népliget (People's Park) in Budapest on 31.5.1955 (gauge: 750 mm, 35 km/h, built by MÁVAG in 1955, similar as Hungarian Class 447).

 

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WP 914-7 at the WP Shops in Stockton California,
1972.

 

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MÁV M44 series DVM2 diesel-electric locomotives and MÁV M31 series DHM2 diesel-hydraulic locomotives being produced at the Ganz-MÁVAG factory in Budapest in 1964.

 

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At the Illinois Central Gulf Yard, Bangor and Aroostook units on lease.

 

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V63 019, V63 013, V63 018, V63 017, V63 016 and V63 015 electric locomotives under construction in the Ganz-MÁVAG factory in Budapest on 4.10.1985.

 

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In June, 1950, the Illinois Central took delivery of four E&A's, numbered 4018-4021. These locomotives were delivered in the traditional chocolate brown and orange colors. 4018-4021 also had the "old style" green diamond emblem, where the horizontal bar with "Illinois Central" lettering did not extend outside the green diamond. These were the last new locomotives delivered with this emblem. On future locomotives (and repaints) the horizontal bar with
"Illinois Central" lettering extended beyond the diamond.

IC wound up buying sixteen E8A's and two E8B's.

Number 4019 was photographed at the 27th Street roundhouse around 1960. By this date the locomotive has been repainted with the newer style green diamond emblem. Tragically, 4019 would be destroyed January 24, 1970, when the southbound
"City of New Orleans" hit a gasoline tanker at a grade crossing in Loda, IL. The engineer and two others in the cab were killed plus the truck driver.
Afterwards 4019 was scrapped.