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Electric, steam and diesel power, represented by a PRR GG1, a C&O L-1 4-6-4, and a B&O EMD, all congregate at the jointly used Ivy City facilities in Washington DmcC in 1950

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This customer must have pissed someone off, because they filled the 6.0L in his dump truck with sand, and did the same thing to the engines in his other dump truck, his skid steer, and his feller buncher.

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My coworker waited weeks for a used transmission for a hybrid Tahoe. It finally showed up and he tipped it up and water ran out of it for a solid 60 seconds.

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This guy crammed a bag of garlic cheese curd inside the fuel filler door on top of the gas cap. Either he though that would fix his evap leak, or lactose intolerant vampires kept syphoning his fuel.

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Well, after 12 years of everyday use and abuse, I broke a Pittsburgh impact socket for the first time.

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The one kid in the detail department bought an '04 Impreza about a week ago, and had us look at a fuel leak and brake fluid leak. Someone did the ol' spray foam and black paint trick to the front subframe.

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Customer smashed up his '21 GMC, then fixed it with house paint applied with a brush, and was trying to trade it in. Our sales manager took one look and said Not a chance

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Claremont & Concorde Railroad's two GE 44-tonners work together to muscle a boxcar up and out of the steeply-graded, sharply-curved spur to Coy Paper Mill in Concorde, NH on October 08, 1981. Photo by M. Leachman.

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The last place one would expect to find a Swedish-built high speed electric X 2000 trainset: On the Soo Line's weed-strewn freight-only line towards Muskego Yard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 26, 1993. Photo by Mike Danneman.

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When you've got an old vehicle, you gotta break out the old tools. A tech just rolled in his personal Sun Sleuth Two engine analyzer

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Illinois Central E8A #4027 pauses at Champaign, Illinois with the northbound City Of Miami to get the insects cleaned off the headlight and windshields. Photo taken June of 1960 by J. Parker Lamb.

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Canadian National M420W #3502 being rerailed after the city of Boucherville used it as a generator to power city hall during the 1998 ice storms. It was actually driven on the pavement under its own power about 1000 feet.

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Four of the Tennessee Railroad's Alco RS-1s work a loaded coal drag through the Tennessee hillside on their way to the interchange at Oneida, TN. Photo taken June of 1973 by Tom Sink.

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Norfolk Southern GP18 #4 crosses a small wooden bridge on its way to work the Georgia-Pacific sawmill in Plymouth, North Carolina on a summer day in July 1973. Photo by Tom Sink.

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Delaware & Hudson's two Baldwin RF-16s, #1205 and #1216, lead a railfan excursion along the shores of Lake Champlain in July of 1975. Purchased for scrap price by a power-starved D&H, the RF-16s became railfan favorites, even if they were reviled by crews.

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Apparently one of the Siemens Chargers failed on Amtrak's City of New Orleans two days ago, resulting in an Illinois Central Death Star SD70 being called on for a rescue and leading the train over home rails at Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Nick Hart.

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New York Central S-1 Niagara #6000 gets it's fire cleaned at the Englewood engine house in Chicago in April of 1945. Photo by Tom Harley

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When it comes to government names, the Hanar win, hands down.

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CSX has unveiled their fourth in their new series of heritage units, CSX #1976, the Conrail heritage unit.

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Two of the Conrail executive E8As lead an office car special past the still-operating Bethlehem Steel complex at Bethlehem, PA on the morning of December 14, 1986. Photo by Doug Lilly

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The Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range's two steam generator-equipped SD9s, #129 and #130, wait at Duluth, Minnesota with Amtrak's short-lived Arrowhead in February '77. Amtrak's SDP40Fs were parked due to derailment issues, so Amtrak was leasing whatever they could get their hands on. Doug Buell photo

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Pennsylvania Railroad J1 class 2-10-4s and I1 class 2-10-0s are readied at Columbus, Ohio for a day of hauling coal on the PRR Sandusky Branch in August of 1956. Photo by J. Parker Lamb

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The last surviving New York Central T-motor electric, #278, (left) and the first New York electric locomotive, S-1 #100 (right), have both arrived at the Danbury Railway Museum in Danbury, Connecticut and have begun reassembly and eventual cosmetic restoration. Photo by Otto Vondrak

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The Mohawk That Refused To Abdicate. New York Central L-3a Mohawk #3005 slams across the diamond at Shelby, Ohio on Sept. 4, 1955 during steam's last stand on the New York Central. Photo by Philip R. Hastings

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Bruce Van Sant caught this terrific night shot of two Conrail E-44 electrics, #4457 and #4436, at CP Minnick in Frenchtown, Maryland, with arcing from both of the pantographs. Photo taken August 20, 1980.

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In recognition of Pride Month, a photo taken by famed railfan author Lucius M. Beebe (left) of himself and his partner and photographer, Charles M. Clegg Jr. (right), sitting on the rails of the Southern Pacific's narrow gauge Keeler Branch.

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A rare color photo of a Pennsylvania Railroad Q2 4-4-6-4 Duplex in action, the #6196 passes the interlocking tower at Englewood on the South Side of Chicago sometime in the late 1940s. Photo by Robert A. Caflisch

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New York Central S-1b 4-8-4 #6008, in the twilight of her career, leads a westbound passenger train at Oneida, NY, on August 19th, 1953, on the old track alignment that cut through the middle of town. Photo by David T. Mainey

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A PRR J1 crosses over the Erie Railroad at AC Tower in Marion, Ohio

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Freshly-built Norfolk & Western S1a 0-8-0 #244 poses for it's builder photo in front of the N&W's Roanoke Shops in December of 1953. The #244 was the final new steam locomotive constructed at the famed facilities, as well as the last new steam locomotive built for an American railroad.

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A far cry from The Road of the Streamliners, the engineer gives a friendly wave from aboard Union Pacific steam generator-equipped GP9 #198 as it leads an honest-to-God mixed train through Archer, Wyoming on September 2nd, 1957.

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The Hunchback of Rio Grande. Denver & Rio Grande Western F7 #5661 after striking a standing train at Thistle, Utah on December 19th, 1963.

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An A-B-A set of Baldwin RF-16s belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad had just cleared Marysville, PA and is about to cross the Susquehanna River via the Rockville Bridge on April 28th, 1957. Photo by Al Chione.

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One of Union Pacific's three Alco C855 leads a westbound freight near North Platte, Nebraska on October 2nd, 1966. The massive twin-engined, 5500hp, 8-axle Alcos quickly proved to be disastrously unreliable and rarely strayed far from North Platte. They were retired and scrapped after just 7 years.

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An Amtrak crew aboard ex-Milwaukee Road E9A #406 waves to the crew aboard Southern #4501 as they meet at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin in 1973.

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Everyone is posting Big Boy photos these days. Unfortunately, #4014 is coming nowhere near me, but I did swing by Scranton to see freshly cosmetically-restored #4012.

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A Delaware & Hudson engineer looks up at Nickel Plate #759 crossing the Starrucca Viaduct with a High Iron Company excursion in May of 1970.

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A Canadian National SW1200 street-running (or rather, front yard-running) in Oshawa, 1980

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I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a Chevy Cavalier in this clean of condition here in Central New York.

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Two of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Baldwin DR-6-4-2000 diesels prepare to leave Jersey City with the express commuter train known colloquially as The Broker for the amount of Wall Street workers that it carried. Photo taken in 1960 by William D. Volkmer.

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Amtrak's eastbound Lake Shore Limited at Utica, NY, two hours behind schedule and with Norfolk Southern SD70ACu #7258 in the lead. One of the P32AC-DMs suffered a mechanical failure near Waterloo, Indiana and the #7258 was borrowed to get it over the road. Definitely a strange sight.

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One of Lehigh & Hudson River's massive, tonnage-mauling 2-8-0s twists it's way through Craigville, NY in 1945. The six Consolidations built by Baldwin in 1925 were amongst the largest and most powerful Consolidations built, pounding out over 71,000lbs of tractive effort. Photo by Donald Furler.

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An A-B-B-A set of Alco FA-2s rolls a Baltimore & Ohio freight through Mckeesport, Pennsylvania on July 1st, 1964

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I don't mind the Mako typically, but that planet is something else.

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Chesapeake & Ohio #1309 on a shakedown run

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Burlington Northern's Morrison-Knudsen-rebuilt E9AMs lay over in the commuter yard at Aurora, Illinois, on June 8, 1991, a little over a year before they were retired.

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I recently purchased a 2002 Toyota MR2 Spyder, and figured since it had tires with 2005 DOT codes and the original serpentine belt, I should probably check the air filter. Yeah, probably a good idea

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Western Pacific 4-8-4 #483 passes under the telltales as it heads east through Niles Canyon in November of 1950. Ordered in 1943, the six GS-64 class locomotives were piggybacked onto Southern Pacific's GS-6 class locomotives due to wartime restrictions, resulting in their similar appearance.

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Illinois Railway Museum's 25-ton Plymouth is dwarfed by the single car it switches

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Reading #2101 in her Chessie Steam Special guise exits Graham Tunnel and crosses the Potomac River on the old Baltimore & Ohio Magnolia Cutoff.

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Sorry, folks, I'm not letting the guy with the will and the means to genocide an entire planet get away.

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A Pennsylvania Railroad B1 electric, #3913, switches a railway post office car at Sunnyside Yard.

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Reading T-1 #2102 has been test-fired at Reading & Northern

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New York Central #1823 moving a freight across Genesee Street in Utica, New York on the West Shore Railroad. Despite crossing a busy 4-lane road, there remained no crossing protection there right up to its abandonment in 1971. The head brakeman would have to detrain, flag traffic and then reboard.

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Reading #2102 at Tamaqua, PA on a Philadelphia–Schwenksville trip on Sept. 19, 1964.

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One of Rock Island's five EMD BL2s leads a northbound Chicago commuter train across PRR tracks on April 21st, 1965. Photo by Marty Bernard.

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Ex-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe CF7s undergoing refurbishment in the old Reading Company machine shop in Reading, Pennsylvania. Andy Muller, of the Blue Mountain & Reading, purchased retired CF7s and had them overhauled, reselling many of them to eastern short lines. Photo by Gregory Pawelski.

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Canadian National #6218 waits in a siding while CN FPA-4s lead a regular passenger train by on February 21st, 1970.

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A quintessential 1980s Burlington Northern lashup of a tiger stripe GP50, a fuel tender, a B30-7AB and another GP50 lead a westbound intermodal train through Highlands, Illinois, on April 18, 1987. The #3161 is one of five GP50s with an extended cab to fit more crew members in lieu of a caboose

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A Wabash crew enjoys a sunny day aboard Fairbanks-Morse Train Master #554

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New York Central L-4b Mohawk #3142 roars under the signal bridge near Peekskill, NY with an eastbound freight on the Hudson Division. The L-4b was the final evolution of NYC's dual-purpose 4-8-2s, and ultimately among the greatest NYC steam power. Photo by Donald Furler.

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Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad #24, a 2-foot gauge 2-6-2 tender engine, with a mixed train at an unknown location. The SR&RL 2-6-2s were the largest of the Maine Two-Footer locomotives. Sadly, none were preserved, although #24 briefly escaped the initial scrapping. Photographer and date unkn.

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Today marks the 79th anniversary of the New York Central's inaugural run of the newly streamlined Empire State Express. The passengers and crew would not learn of attack on Pearl Harbor until after disembarking.

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Chesapeake & Ohio H-8 2-6-6-6 Alleghenies, and a single 0-8-0, congregate around the turntable at Clifton Forge, Virginia, sometime in 1944. Photo by William M. Rittase.

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A three-truck Shay belonging to the Twin Seam Mining Company climbs a grade south of Kellerman, Alabama, with 7 cars of coal and the brakeman riding on the footboards with a bucket of sand. Photo was taken in December of 1959 by J. Parker Lamb.

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The B&O Railroad Museum has completed their cosmetic restoration of B&O #51, the first EMC EA produced and the first streamlined diesel locomotive in the US.

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New York, New Haven & Hartford I-5 class streamlined 4-6-4 #1400 rounds a curve on the Shore Line between New London and Old Saybrook, Connecticut with the Yankee Clipper, which ran from Boston to New York City. Photo by Kent Cochrane.

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The nicest G-body I have ever seen came in today. Its an '86 Cutlass Supreme with 42k original miles, black with burgundy interior, T-tops and the 231 V6.

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Reading #2102 rounds the curve at East Mahanoy Junction, with it's first excursion in 31 years. Nineteen passenger cars, no diesel assistance, and rain meant that it put on quite a show.

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Two of Kennecott Copper's Magna Motor electric locomotive drag a 90-car trainload of copper ore out of Bingham Canyon Copper Mine to the car dumpers at Magna, Utah. The photo is October 14th, 1978, and within two months the 47 year old GE 125-ton electrics will be retired for EMD SD40-2s

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Pennsylvania Railroad I1sa 2-10-0 #4651 meets Erie E8A #832 at Milport, NY.

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Eight locomotives from eight railroads in USA Bicentennial liveries gather in the Belt Railway of Chicago's 87th Street yard for the 75th anniversary of Trains Magazine on July 31st, 1975

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Chesapeake & Ohio J-3a Greenbrier #614 claws it's way up the Baltimore & Ohio's famed Sand Patch Grade with a 16-car Chessie Safety Special at Mance, Pennsylvania, USA on September 13th, 1981. Photo by Doug Lilly

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Only the crossing guard is a giveaway that this photo of Strasburg #90 isn't from the '50s or '60s. Photo is from Strasburg Rail Road's Facebook page and was taken at their Steam Strikes Back photo event this weekend.

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Pennsylvania Railroad #5773, a Baldwin DR-6-4-2000, cuts through the rain circa 1964.

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Amtrak's short-lived, and poorly-patronized, Hilltopper arrives at the north end of Collier Yard in Petersburg, Virginia. Due to track layout, the train had to be towed in reverse by a Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac GP7 between Richmond and Petersburg in either direction. Photo by G.R. Harper

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Okay, this time it really is Strasburg #90

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One of the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range's massive 0-10-2 switchers rests outside the Proctor, MN roundhouse on a September night in '54. The DM&IR purchased these big Union-type engines from sister U.S. Steel road, Union Railroad.

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Yesterday was the first time in 61 years that Nevada Northern #81 saw a fire in here firebox.

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O. Winston Link's famed Hot Shot Eastbound, depicting a Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 roaring past a driven-in movie theater at Iaeger, West Virginia. The airplane on the movie screen was actually a separate small print, glued somewhat crudely onto the larger image by Link.

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Central Vermont U-1-a Mountain #601 departs the St. Albans train shed with a passenger train in 1937.

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A preservation win: Adirondack #25, one of three surviving Alco RSC-2s, was facing the torch after a dispute between the museum it was displayed at in Utica, NY and the NRHS chapter that owned it. Money has been raised to save it and move it to Remsen, NY to be displayed.

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One of the Virginian Railway's massive 6800hp EL-2B electrics rolls a coal train out of Elmore, WV. The Virginian may have been the Richest Little Railroad in the World but their motive power was anything but little.

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Flying white flags and running long hood forward in Southern Railway tradition, SD45 #3113 moves the tonnage through Jasper, Virginia.

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Rock Island Railroad GE C42-9 #2127 provides a look at a weird alternate future where the original Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific survived long enough to buy GE Dash-8s. Photo taken at Sumner, Mississippi on June 1st, 2021 by Dylan Jones.

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A trio of Chicago & North Western Alco C628s lead a loaded ore train across flat land near Escanaba, MI during August of 1975. The high-nose C628s were purchased used from Norfolk & Western by the Cheap & Nothing Wasted in 1973 to replace aging Fairbanks-Morse H-16-66s. Photo by Pete Schwesinger.

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Happy 71st birthday to Norfolk & Western #611. On May 29th, 1950 she rolled out of the N&W's Roanoke shops.

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A pair of Pennsylvania Railroad E8s leads train 65, with 4 cars of mail, 2 baggage cars, and 2 coaches out of St. Louis' Union Station, while in the background three Norfolk & Western GP9s lead the remnants of Wabash's Detroit-bound Banner Blue on October 26, 1967. Photo by J. Parker Lamb

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One of the Union Pacific's outrageous three-cylinder 4-12-2s thrashes its way across the prairie at Sidney, Nebraska.

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Taken from the Unnecessary Automobile Nose Swaps page on Facebook.

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One of Union Pacific's 2-8-8-0 Bullmooses pounds it's way through the Blue Mountains. While the Big Boys and Challengers and 4-12-2s got all the glory, the 2-8-8-0s also provided years of faithful service, first as compounds, and then later as single-expansion engines.

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Forty five years ago today, Consolidated Rail Corporation officially took over operations of 7 ailing northeastern railroads to prevent an industry collapse. In this photo from 1978, two Conrail GP30s work a freight under the wires at Morrisville

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Conrail E8s #4020 and #4021 head north with an Office Car Special on what was once the NYC's Fallbrook Line, connecting Corning, NY with Jersey Shore, PA via Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon, the Pine Creek Gorge on 07/27/88. Two months later, Conrail would remove the rails south of Wellsboro Junction.

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I can't say I've ever seen anyone make a bumper out of an ATV ramp before this.

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The sun rises on Strasburg Rail Road #90

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Baltimore & Ohio E9A #1455 and Chesapeak & Ohio E8A #4012 wait side by side at Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois on February 27, 1966.

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The Long Island Rail Road crew aboard Fairbanks-Morse CPA-20-5 #2002 snags new orders on the fly at DIVIDE Tower on the Port Jefferson Branch in Hicksville, NY.

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Nickel Plate #759 hauling a Steamtown USA excursion between Montpelier, VT and Boston, MA in October of 1973. This would be one of the big Berkshire's final trips

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Pennsylvania Railroad J1 #6409 passes signal bride #2416 towards Horseshoe Curve with a mixed freight on August of 1952. The doghouse on the tender is occupied

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Pennsylvania Railroad J1 2-10-4 #6421 lugs a freight train up and out of Horseshoe Curve on an unknown date.

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Damn, these new cop cars are fast

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The brakeman rides on the pilot of Kentucky & Tennessee #12 as she heads for Stearns, Kentucky in August of 1963. K&T #12 is better known by her original, and current, identity of Southern #4501.

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Three of the Chicago & North Western's Alco C628s cross Goose Lake near Marquette, Michigan with a long string of taconite ore cars. The big Alcos were purchased used from Norfolk & Western and sent north to retire the C&NW's aging Fairbanks-Morses. The C628s held down this run until 1986.

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Central Vermont 2-10-4 #706 coasts into Brattleboro, VT with a southbound freight. While small and light as far as Texas-types go, these were large by Central Vermont standards. At Brattleboro #706 would be replaced for the rest of the trip south due to bridge weight restrictions.

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PRR J1a #6493 with a loaded northbound coal train meets borrowed Santa Fe 5011-class #5012 with an empty southbound train on PRR's Sandusky Branch. In 1956, PRR borrowed 12 of the Santa Fe Texas-types to help out with coal traffic between Sandusky and Columbus.

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PRR #5518 and a sister T1 get a passenger train heavy with head end cars underway. Date and location unknown, but the fact that #5518 has had some of her streamlining removed indicates that this is later in the big Duplexes lives.

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Doubleheaded Penn Central GG1s on freight duty, both coming and going at Jersey City in 1970. Especially noteworthy is that the trailing GG1 on the right is #4800, Old Rivets herself.

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Two Delaware & Hudson's Alco PAs glide out from under the Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, on October 19, 1974 with an excursion. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund

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Swung by Utica, NY to see New York Central B-11 0-6-0 #6721. She is looking much nicer than she has in many years

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Delaware & Hudson shop crews take advantage of the nice weather to do some work on GE U33C #755 at the Colonie Diesel Shops in September of 1976.

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Two of Kansas City Southern's big 900-series Texas-types at the Pittsburgh, Kansas roundhouse. Posted in honor of KCS, in light of the news that CP has bought them out.

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Looking a bit worse for the wear and in the twilight of her career, New York Central J-3 Hudson #5403 proves she can put on a show as she thrashes across Illinois in this Philip R. Hasting photo.

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Adirondack Railway Company #25, the Alco RSC-2 recently saved from scrapping, crosses the Utica Marsh on its way out of Utica, NY in the summer of 1980. #25 never wore the Adirondack green and gold while in operation, instead keeping its Florida Power & Light blue and orange.

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Reading T-1 #2101 heads the Chessie Steam Special through Thurmond, VA in 1978.

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Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern C424 #806 hauling a ballast train to rehab the Adirondack Scenic Railroad roadbed between Snow Junction and Thendara in 1998. The train stalled in the sag at Big Woodhull and the sander wasn't working so the crew had to sand the old-fashioned way to get moving again

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Strasburg Rail Road #89, #90 and #475

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Burlington Northern E-series commuter fleet at rest

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Frisco's streamlined Firefly, running between Oklahoma City and Kansas City, departs Tulsa with streamlined Pacific #1026 on the lead. Frisco upgraded and streamlined three of the older 1015-class Pacifics in 1939 for the train, increasing driver diameter 4 through the use of thicker tires.

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Baldwin-Westinghouse #4000, aka The Blue Goose, an experimental 4000hp gas turbine electric locomotive. Built in 1950, it demonstrated on many railroads, including Chicago & North Western as shown here, but found no buyer and was scrapped in 1953.

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Conrail E33 electric locomotives #4608 and #4607 lead an eastbound manifest freight across the lower span of the unique two-level Safe Harbor Bridge over the Conestoga River at Safe Harbor, PA. Photo taken on May 25, 1979 by Bob Kise.

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Baltimore & Ohio Big Six 2-10-2 #6143 leaving Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia

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Penn Central GG1 #4879 is passed by an Amtrak Metroliner at Elizabeth, NJ on December 22, 1974

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A 2010 Cadillac SRX factory-optioned with the Saab 2.8 Turbo V6. This was a one year-only option and I think this is only the third one I've seen.

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Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited and New York Central's 20th Century Limited race each other out of Chicago and on to Gary, Indiana

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No fewer than seven Western Maryland 2-8-0s — these three at midtrain, another two on the head end and two more ahead of the caboose — shove a 78-car eastbound train up the grade through the Black Fork Gorge toward Thomas, W.Va. Edward Theisinger photo

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Well, sir, your drivability issue was traced back to the fact that your air filter was apparently donkey-punched into the airbox by the Incredible Hulk.

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While returning home from a three-day jaunt through Pennsylvania, I swung by Nicholson, Pennsylvania to see the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct. Constructed by Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1915, it is 2,375 feet long, 34 feet wide, and 300 feet high

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A uniquely Union Pacific lashup of one GE U50 whirlybird and three SD24Bs prepares to depart North Platte under stormy skies. A second U50 also appears to be getting ready on the track to the left.

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Amtrak E8A #4316 in an experimental paint scheme at Harrisburg, PA in August of 1971. Amtrak needed something for publicity with its newly refurbished Broadway Limited so they cleaned up this engine and added some graphics over the Penn Central black paint. It was later repainted into Phase I livery

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