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  1. Amtrak - Texas Eagle

    Amtrak - Texas Eagle

    Amtrak's Texas Eagle races through Missouri farmlands.
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    • amtrak art eagle texas
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Railroad Art
  2. Amtrak - Adirondack

    Amtrak - Adirondack

    Amtrak's Adirondack skirts the edge of Lake Champlain.
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    • adirondack amtrak art
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Railroad Art
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    Comment by 'John Ryan' in media 'Amtrak - Coast Starlight'

    Bryon, This was drawn freehand in Adobe Illustrator. Given that this is the third illustration I've completed, it only too five or six hours. That includes recycling the Superliners from a prior illustration.
  4. Amtrak - Coast Starlight

    Amtrak - Coast Starlight

    Amtrak's Coast Starlight winds its way through the mountains after a fresh snowfall.
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    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Railroad Art
  5. Twice Monthly

    Twice Monthly

    Little 102 of Kentucky and Tennessee comes out only several times a month to move freight for her owners.
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    • alco kentucky
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Eastern United States
  6. West of Little Rock

    West of Little Rock

    Little Rock & Western's weatherbeaten Geep heads up a small westbound on the line to Danville.
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    • arkansas gp9 lrw
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  7. Fort Smith Railroad

    Fort Smith Railroad

    One of Fort Smith Railroad's two GP20's awaits the day's activities. The ornate green building behind the locomotive is a brothel.
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    • arkansas fort gp20 smith
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  8. Jewelry, Guns, Knives, and Alcos

    Jewelry, Guns, Knives, and Alcos

    Arkansas and Missouri's southbound Monett Turn passes signs for a dubious establishment.
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    • a&m ar c420
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  9. Power for the Grade

    Power for the Grade

    Six Alco C420's fight upgrade with a train on the outskirts of Monett, MO.
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    • a&m mo
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  10. Rolling

    Rolling

    Alco C420 60 has an easy time of things on the Arkansas and Missouri's welded rail.
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    • a&m ar c420
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  11. Still Smoking

    Still Smoking

    Two ex-Belt Railway of Chicago Alco Centuries charge around Springdale, Akansas, with
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    • a&m c424
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  12. Loading Up

    Loading Up

    A Kansas City Southern crew boards a ballast train in preparation for dumping ballast south towards Pittsburg, Kansas
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    • ballast crew herzog kcs people
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  13. Wide Nose Wings

    Wide Nose Wings

    A westbound Union Pacific train has trackage rights over joint BNSF - NS trackage in Missouri
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    • intermodal mo up
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  14. Orange and Blue

    Orange and Blue

    A westbound BNSF train streaks through Norborne, MO.
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    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  15. Flatlands

    Flatlands

    A westbound NS manifest freight passes the old station sign in Norborne, MO.
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    • missouri ns
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
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