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Photo ID: 801564

To most railfans, Lehigh Valley means two things: Camelback engines with Wooton fireboxes, and long trains of anthracite-laden hoppers toiling over the mountains towards New York. The Black Diamo... (more)

Railroad: Lehigh Valley
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: LV 2093
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 01, 1941


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By: Edward Law

Added: Apr 27, 2022

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Views: 10,778
Comments: 6

Favorited: 63
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Photo ID: 726061

With the demise of the Paris-South-East TGVs I thought I would dig into the past to see if I had photographed No 1 'Patrick' but alas no. (see Jean-Marc Frybourg's excellent photos of No1 making i... (more)

Railroad: SNCF
Locomotive: South East TGV
Location: Jonqueries-St.Vincent, France
Locomotive #: 4
Train ID: TGV 874
Photo Date: May 13, 1989


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By: Brian Stephenson

Added: Feb 18, 2020

Views: 3,096
Comments: 1

Favorited: 17
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Photo ID: 719510

One of Amtrak's two Bombardier LRC locomotives poses at South Station in Boston before departing for New Haven on train 153, the Beacon Hill. The year-long LRC lease did not lead to any US sales b... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Bombardier LRC
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 38
Train ID: #153, Beacon Hill
Photo Date: September, 1980


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Dec 13, 2019

Views: 8,104
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Favorited: 17
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Photo ID: 706394

4 generations of Shinkansen trains standing side by side at the SCMAGLEV and Railway Park museum in Nagoya.

Railroad: Japan Railways (JR)
Locomotive: 300 Series Shinkansen
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Locomotive #: 322-9001
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 21, 2019


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By: Kumamon

Added: Aug 10, 2019

Views: 6,447
Comments: 1

Favorited: 18
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Photo ID: 691010

Both powered by Alco 251 prime movers and both built at the MLW plant in East End Montreal, LRC-3 VIA 6921 & M-630 CP 4563 sit side by side at Exporail.

Railroad: VIA Rail
Locomotive: Bombardier LRC-3
Location: St-Constant, Quebec, Canada
Locomotive #: VIA 6921
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 16, 2019


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By: Michael Berry

Added: Mar 17, 2019

Views: 2,198
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Favorited: 7


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Photo ID: 673199

In its first weeks of revenue service for Penn Central, a United Aircraft TurboTrain that still wears its original DOT colors speeds through the station at Stratford, CT, bound for Grand Central T... (more)

Railroad: Penn Central
Locomotive: UA TurboTrain
Location: Stratford, Connecticut, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: 3001
Photo Date: April, 1969


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Oct 08, 2018

Views: 5,835
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Favorited: 22
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Photo ID: 667668

A northbound Metroliner is trailing a long cloud of dust as it starts to decelerate for the Susquehanna River crossing. Note the different pantographs on the GE-equipped 1st car and the Westingho... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Metroliner
Location: Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 881
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July, 1978


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By: Bob Kise

Added: Aug 17, 2018

Views: 2,648
Comments: 2

Favorited: 16
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Photo ID: 658834

Streamlined 4-6-2 # 6229 "Duchess of Hamilton" of the famous "Coronation class" of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), built in 1938 at Crewe. Exhibited in the Natio... (more)

Railroad: Untitled
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: York, United Kingdom
Locomotive #: 6229
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 06, 2012


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By: Georg Trüb

Added: May 23, 2018

Views: 3,760
Comments: 3

Favorited: 17
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Photo ID: 658783

Streamlined 4-6-2 # 6229 "Duchess of Hamilton" of the famous "Coronation class" of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), built in 1938 at Crewe. Exhibited in the Natio... (more)

Railroad: Untitled
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: York, United Kingdom
Locomotive #: 6229
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 06, 2012


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By: Georg Trüb

Added: May 23, 2018

Views: 2,410
Comments: 1

Favorited: 7
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Photo ID: 658295

As seen from the top of Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, NY, an Amtrak Turboliner races up the Hudson Valley towards Albany. I later learned that the rock formation on which I was innocently ... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: Rohr Turboliner
Location: Cold Spring, New York, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Empire Service
Photo Date: July, 1985


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: May 18, 2018

Views: 3,862
Comments: 1

Favorited: 12


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Photo ID: 657450

Six years after Amtrak concluded an unsuccessful evaluation of Bombardier's LRC equipment, a VIA LRC set showed up in Boston's South station as part of a high speed rail demonstration sponsored by... (more)

Railroad: VIA Rail
Locomotive: Bombardier LRC
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: VIA 6907
Train ID: press special
Photo Date: May 11, 1988


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: May 09, 2018

Views: 5,294
Comments: 1

Favorited: 17
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Photo ID: 635786

SNCF TGV 03 "Belfort" risdes alongside the Lac du Bourget as R 937 from Paris-Gare-de-Lyon to Annecy.

Railroad: SNCF
Locomotive: SNCF TGV/PSE
Location: Grésine, France
Locomotive #: TGV 03
Train ID: R 937
Photo Date: August 30, 1984


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By: Maarten van der Velden

Added: Oct 26, 2017

Views: 4,021
Comments: 2

Favorited: 26
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Photo ID: 635486

In its first summer of revenue service, a United Aircraft TurboTrain running as Penn Central train 3002 between New York and Boston speeds through the Pine Orchard section of Branford, CT, leaving... (more)

Railroad: Penn Central
Locomotive: UA TurboTrain
Location: Pine Orchard, Connecticut, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: 3002
Photo Date: July, 1969


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By: Tom Nelligan

Added: Oct 24, 2017

Views: 3,715
Comments: 2

Favorited: 15
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Photo ID: 634519

Metroliners on #4 pass a GG-1 powered freight with excess power on #3 that will soon leave the NEC at Lane Tower, pass under the #4 track flyover, and enter the PRR Waverly Yard complex.

Railroad: Penn Central
Locomotive: Metroliner
Location: North Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: PC 855
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February, 1976


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By: Paul F. De Luca

Added: Oct 16, 2017

Views: 3,922
Comments: 4

Favorited: 28
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Photo ID: 633743

The first Japanese Shinkansen carriage to be exhibited outside Japan was unveiled at Britain's National Railway Museum in York by His Excellency The Ambassador of Japan. Built in 1976, Series 0 ca... (more)

Railroad: Japanese National Railways
Locomotive: Shinkansen
Location: York, United Kingdom
Locomotive #: #22-141
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 02, 2017


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By: Daniel SIMON

Added: Oct 10, 2017

Views: 2,558
Comments: 1

Favorited: 4
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