Trains – September 2019
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Park dome car returns to Churchill train VIA Rail Canada has added a Park-series dome-lounge-observation to its Winnipeg- Church ...
Former Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 No. 29 rolls Pullman green Harriman coaches for Grand Canyon Railway near Anita, Ariz ...
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T he 2-8-0 or Consolidation- type steam locomotive was the most numerous pro- duced for North American railroads — more than 21, ...
issued a great wake-up call to the railroad industry. Because of the power and speed potential of the new locomotive, the rail- ...
up right along with it. The principle of compounding — using steam twice before exhausting it into the atmosphere with its savin ...
became bigger — 21-inch and 22-inch bores — and strokes of all the way to 30 inches. Shortly after 1900, a 2-8-0 locomotive came ...
wide fireboxes; the Camelback configura- tion naturally limited communication between engineer and fireman. The 2-8-0 wheel arra ...
that weighed 303,700 pounds and developed 71,500 pounds of tractive effort with their 61-inch drivers. They had a grate area of ...
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Two Boeing 737 fuselages ride along on a westbound BNSF Railway train on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision in Winston, Mont ...
WYOMING WASHINGTON SOUTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA MONTANA KANSAS IDAHO MRL BNSF BNSF BNSF Typical routing, not all lines shown Direction ...
Hauser, Idaho. Due to the high- and-wide nature of the cars, the trains must be careful of clear- ance when meeting other trains ...
The fuselages range in length from 100 to 130 feet, depending on the version of the The longer airliners require the use of spe ...
shipment travels the route in up to eight days, but depend- ing on the emergent need can be moved in just four. The Renton plant ...
THE OTH ...
ER PASS Not as well known as Tehachapi and Cajon, Southern California’s Beaumont Hill is worthy of attention by David Lustig Wit ...
Harsh, tough, and grueling like Tehachapi? Long demanding grades with sweeping curves such as Cajon? So what do you think of San ...
Pacific Sunset Route between Los Angeles and New Orleans via Tucson, El Paso, and Houston. Geographically, the pass separates th ...
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