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  1. Bethlehem Steel Railroad Tour

    Bethlehem Steel Railroad Tour

    On Friday, June 23, 2006, The National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH) hosted a tour and night photography session within the former Bethlehem Steel mill in Bethlehem, PA.
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    • Category: Industrial and critters
  2. CP Rail C-424

    CP Rail C-424

    Not that long ago gangs of these MLW's ruled CP's mainlines - now they're replaced with AC4400CW's and SD40-2's. This example was retired in 1999 and sent to Canada's biggest RR museum near Montreal, QC called EXPORAIL. I know this should be in the museum section, but this beast was retired...
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    • Category: Canadian Pacific
  3. Central Delta Depot Museum - M.J. Scanlon

    Central Delta Depot Museum - M.J. Scanlon

    This depot turned museum is located in Brinkley, Arkansas. It stands where the current UP Brinkley Sub merges into the UP Jonesboro Sub.
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    • Category: Buildings and Structures
  4. WICT F A-B-A

    WICT F A-B-A

    Wisconsin & Calumet and Janesville & Southeastern F-units on display at the National Railroad Museum in 2004.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Diesels
  5. Coal cart

    Coal cart

    I find this little thing very neat. The Museum of Industry has two of them. It's a circa 1900 15Ton hopper.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Rolling Stock
  6. Repainted Illinois Central Caboose

    Repainted Illinois Central Caboose

    A repainted Illinois Central caboose sits in the Nashville and Eastern yard. It belongs to the Tennessee Central Railroad Museum.
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    • Category: Caboose
  7. CERR 0800 at the Chaplin Station

    CERR 0800 at the Chaplin Station

    The Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum hosted it's 2nd Annual Night Photo Shoot on June 11, 2005 at the museum site in Willimantic, CT. Here museum volunteers Mark G. and Jerry G. pose with the CERM's ex-LIRR GE 44 tonner at the restored Chaplin, CT station. Canon EOS 20D, Canon 70-200mm...
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    • Category: Editor's Favorite Photos
  8. GMD1 cab

    GMD1 cab

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    • Category: Detail Photos
  9. GE Builder's plate

    GE Builder's plate

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  10. Cowichan Valley Railway No.25

    Cowichan Valley Railway No.25

    Narrow guage 0-4-0T No.25 "Sampson" built in 1910 by the Vulcan Iron works. It was used in the conrstruction of the Canadian Northern Pacific line on the mainland. It now resides along with several other preserved steamers at the BC Forest Museum in Duncan, BC.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  11. Signboard of subway museum

    Signboard of subway museum

    This is a signboard of subway museum at kasai in Tokyo metro tozai line. The signboard shows newest EMUs for 9 lines.
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    • Category: Buildings and Structures
  12. Cowichan Valley No.1

    Cowichan Valley No.1

    Cowichan Valley Shay no.1. The No.1 may return to service one day, it's currently bad ordered after a failed boiler inspection. Narrow guage too.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  13. Casey Jones Bell - M.J. Scanlon

    Casey Jones Bell - M.J. Scanlon

    The bell from Engine 382 that wrecked in Vaughan, Mississippi on April 29, 1900 with Casey Jones at the controls.
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    • Category: Detail Photos
  14. Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum

    Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum

    Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum's 44tonner #0800 (ex-LIRR) and FL-9 #2023 (ex-CDOT, nee-New Haven) rest near the restored Chaplin Station on the museum grounds in Willimantic, CT. Shot on November 15, 2003. Agfa Scala 200 film.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Diesels
  15. Electroliner

    Electroliner

    North Shore Electroliner at the Illinois Railway Museum
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    • Category: Creative Photos
  16. 78 arriving at the museum

    78 arriving at the museum

    78 arrives from the Washington County Fairgrounds. Photo by Michael Huhn 8/10/03
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Trolley and Electrics
  17. MTM Baldwin

    MTM Baldwin

    MTM owns this Selfridge Baldwin. This one was actually used at Selfridge ANGB before they discontinued rail service with GTW. GTW supplied the coal for the boiler plants before the base turned to natural gas for heat.
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  18. MTM Alco

    MTM Alco

    MTM's Alco at Selfridge ANGB, MI
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Diesels
  19. Barrington Crossing

    Barrington Crossing

    A doodlebug and a streetcar meet at the Barrington station on the grounds of the Canadian Railway Museum. The meet was staged as part of a special event at the museum in July 1996. Steve Barry photo.
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Trolley and Electrics
  20. Alco RS-1, with Railfan

    Alco RS-1, with Railfan

    Old pix - using for test. This is a shot of a railfan doing his "job" at the Danbury Railway Museum's 2000 Railfair. (This is why I believe this a better location than "Freight Trains.")
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Diesels




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