These 13 women kept SLO’s railroad running during WWII. ‘A man’s job — but I can do it’
The 13 grease-streaked, overall-clad feminine “roundhousers” who work right along with the men in the roundhouse, where ...
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Articulated steam locomotives
The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
When a Deadly Winter Storm Trapped a Luxury Passenger Train Near the Donner Pass for Three Days
Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...
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Steam locos to reunite for first time in 50 years
Most of the 1940s Bulleid Pacific class steam locomotives will chug along the ... on such a scale as this is truly a privilege.” Southern Railway chief mechanical engineer Oliver Vaughan Snell ...
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RailState data shows prevalence of long trains on BNSF, UP in Southwest
RailState, which monitors rail traffic using a network of sensors placed on public property along main lines, has provided a ...
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Union Pacific Railroad unveils ultra-low emission diesel locomotives
Just days after we wrote about the problem of trying to introduce cleaner locomotives into existing railway's fleets, Union Pacific Railroad has unveiled the first of 60 new environmentally ...