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An eastbound Erie-Lackawanna commuter train consisting of NJ DOT-funded equipment in the form of GE U34CH #3359 and 6 Pullman Comet I coaches arrives at Anderson Street station in Hackensack, New Jersey on July 12th, 1972. Photo by Rich Taylor.

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An eastbound Erie-Lackawanna commuter train consisting of NJ DOT-funded equipment in the form of GE U34CH #3359 and 6 Pullman Comet I coaches arrives at Anderson Street station in Hackensack, New Jersey on July 12th, 1972. Photo by Rich Taylor.

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In September, 1981, a southbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac merchandise train, behind a trio of RF&P's EMD GP40 locomotives, is passing along Center Street in Ashland, Virginia. Photo by Mark Hinsdale

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A pair of Erie-Lackawanna's NJ DOT-funded GE U34CH are returning to Croxton Yard in Jersey City, NJ with freight PO-98 after escaped as far west as Marion, OH in July of '72. E-L was not supposed to use them in freight service or take them out of NJ, but did so anyway due to power shortages.

Photo by John Del Vecchio.

u/N_dixon — 8 days ago

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With plenty of power on the head-end, Erie-Lackawanna's NE-97 screams west through sleepy little Owego, New York in the winter of 1975. Jointly operated with Penn Central, these trains ran from Chicago to Utica over the E-L and then PC handled them from Utica to New England. Bill Rettberg Jr. photo.

u/N_dixon — 10 days ago

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West Side Lumber Co. narrow-gauge 3-truck Shay #14 leads one of the last two trains for the WSLCo., hauling equipment out of the woods and back to Tuolumne, California for the end of operations on June 7th, 1961. Photo by John West.

u/N_dixon — 13 days ago

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Canadian Pacific 4-6-0 #972 passes by Carpenters Crossing, protected by a brakeman, on the Strasburg Rail Road in August of '79. The CP D-10j had had worked performed by the Strasburg shops for Rail Tours Inc and was doing break-in runs before going back to Jim Thorpe, PA. Kurt Bell photo.

u/N_dixon — 16 days ago

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A pair of ex-Bangor & Aroostook EMD F3s in Central Railroad of New Jersey paint and numbers arrive at the ex-CNJ station in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Owned by the Anthracite Railroad Historical Society and Tri-State NRHS, they were leased to Rail Tours Inc. from '89 to '01. Scott Brouse photo.

u/N_dixon — 17 days ago

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Frisco E7A #2003, painted for the joint Missouri-Kansas-Texas/Frisco "Texas Special", waits at St. Louis Union Station. in St Louis, Missouri on July 17th, 1948. Photo by R.T. Tillman.

u/N_dixon — 20 days ago

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Seriously, what was the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western thinking when they designed the paint scheme on this thing?

u/N_dixon — 20 days ago

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Some autocross photos ftom last weekend with my '02 Spyder.

u/N_dixon — 21 days ago

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Minutes after departing from Slidell, Louisiana, Southern Railway's northbound Crescent is cruising at 79mph on this straight level track behind EMD E8A #6912 in April of 1977. Photo by Gary Morris.

u/N_dixon — 22 days ago

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A couple of ex-Rock Island "Al Capone" commuter coaches are trailing a 1912 GE gas-electric locomotive from the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company at Amtrak Midway Station in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 22, 1982. Photo by Rik Anderson

u/N_dixon — 23 days ago

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Some more photos from my final day at the Tail of the Dragon with my '02 Spyder two weeks ago. A bit more sunlit than the first batch.

u/N_dixon — 23 days ago

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"The Route of the Noonday Sun." Great Smoky Mountains Railroad F9A #4210 waits at Nantahala, North Carolina to lead it's excursion back to Bryson City on July 19th, 2026.

u/N_dixon — 27 days ago

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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 2-8-0 #1702 waits at Bryson City, North Carolina to lead a train up the Murphy Branch of the Southern Railway on July 19th, 2026.

u/N_dixon — 27 days ago

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Frisco #200, an EMD re-powered Baldwin VO-1000, prepares to go for a spin on Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's ex-Central of Georgia turntable at their East Chattanooga, TN facility on the evening of July 18th, 2026.

u/N_dixon — 28 days ago

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Southern Railway GP38-2 #5000 passes by an old house in Rock Spring, Georgia with a Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum excursion running from Chattanooga, TN to Summerville, GA on July 18th, 2026.

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Southern Railway GP38-2 #5000 leads a Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum excursion over the Chattooga River in Trion, Georgia on July 18th, 2026.

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After driving from New York to Tennessee to see Southern #4501 lead Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Summerville Steam Special, the #4501 broke shortly before departure, resulting in Southern GP38-2 #5000 pinch-hitting as they pass by the Peerless Cotton Mill in East Chattanooga on July 18, 2026

u/N_dixon — 1 month ago

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The perfect car for the perfect road. Did some dragon-slaying yesterday in my '02 Spyder

u/N_dixon — 1 month ago