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Desert helper, pushing a loaded westbound grain train through the curves at Mescal, Arizona, April 10, 2021.
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A Union Pacific maintenance of way consist awaits resumption of work in the coming week while an eastbound freight train led by UP 5344 nears the summit of the grade at Mescal, AZ, April 10, 2021.
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The BNSF Southern Trancontinental line through Northern Arizona was especially busy on March 5, 2021. There had been a derailment in Ludlow, California, the day before, so trains were delayed and bunched up. The volume of traffic after reopening was huge.
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Late in the afternoon, a westbound grain train climbs the Arizona Divide at Riordan, on BNSF's ex-Santa Fe Southern Transcontinental line, likely bound for export from the port of LA/San Pedro/Long Beach in California, March 5, 2021
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BNSF GE-built C44-9W 5311 and two similar Norfolk Southern locomotives pull a westbound intermodal train predominantly loaded with J.B. Hunt trailers under the Interstate 40 overpass at Riordan, Coconino County, Arizona, on March 5, 2021.
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4 BNSF 4,400 horsepower GE-built locomotives apply their 17,600 horsepower to the westward and uphill journey of a cottonseed unit train on the Arizona Divide, at Riordan, March 5, 2021.
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BNSF leads a westbound coal train under the Interstate 40 overpass at Riordan, west of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, Arizona, on March 5, 2021.
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BNSF 4209 and 5082 put their 8800 combined horsepower to work as they climb the Arizona Divide heading west at Riordan, Coconino County, Arizona, on March 5, 2021.
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Union Railroad at work near Port Perry, Pennsylvania, 1975
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Ogee Cutoff on the Union Pacific, September 8, 2020. Who knows where this photo was taken? I do, since I took it, but I think it's one of the more obscure locations on the railroad.
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Union Pacific Railroad eastbound container train led by GE ES44AC 7893 and EMD SD70M 3861 departing Tucson Yard, December 28, 2009
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Impatiently waiting, Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 29, 2012.
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Kazakhstan Railways VL80-2360 awaiting departure time at Almaty 2 Station, July 8, 2007.
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VL80-2585, ex-USSR Railways, now Kazakhstan Railways, at Almaty 2 Station, July 8, 2007.
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Kazakhstan Railways VL80-2705 pulling a northbound freight train between Almaty and Astana, July 12, 2012.
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Shunting passenger wagons at the carshop, Almaty 2 Station, Kazakhstan, July 8, 2007.
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Union Pacific GE-built C44ACCTE 6624 is the lead unit on an eastbound manifest freight train stopped in Willcox, Cochise County, Arizona, and awaiting a clear signal before it proceeds, May 24, 2020.
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TWO GE-BUILT 3,000 HORSEPOWER C3-7 LOCOMOTIVES OF THE FERROCARILES NACIONALES DE MEXICO AT A GRADE CROSSING IN EMPALME, SONORA, MEXICO, IN 1992
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Jungle railroading, Penn Central style, 1975
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Portland and Western GP38-3, Corvallis, Oregon, November 26, 2017
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Southern Pacific SD45-T2 leads a westbound (timetable direction) freight train around the curves of California's Tehachapi Loop in the early summer of 1984.
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Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric locomotive 4867 at the railroad's passenger station in Baltimore, Maryland, August, 1966.
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Still shiny in its as-delivered dark blue-and-yellow color scheme, complete with the short-lived sunburst on the nose, B&O GP30 6914 leads a southbound train of hoppers on the Johnstown Branch at Somerset, Pennsylvania, in autumn, 1964.
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During the country-wide airline strike of August, 1966, a long and undoubtedly crowded New York Central passenger train enters Chicago, IL, on the tracks of the Illinois Central, powered by three EMD-built GP9 locomotives, 5929, 5930, and 5944.
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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie GE-built (at Erie, PA) 2,800 horsepower U28B locomotives 2818 and 2818 power an eastbound freight on the railroad's mainline across the Monogahela River from downtown PIttsburgh, PA, April, 1966.
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Just a few of Pittsburgh's bridges, and a P&LE train as well, 1966
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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie commuter train from Beaver, PA, or Youngstown, Ohio, arriving at Pittsburgh on an April morning in 1966.
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Posted on Flickr previously, but for those who haven't seen live steam in PIttsburgh, PA, in the 1960's, here Mesta Machine Company #7, a Porter-built fireless locomotive, working in the yard. 1966 (I think).
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B&O GP30 6952 leads an eastbound auto parts train toward Cumberland, Maryland, in the summer of 1978
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Ontario Northland's "Northlander" train, using former Trans Europe Express equipment, in the Muskoka Lakes region of Ontario, August, 1978
