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Built 1912.

NS 8025, the Monongahela Heritage Unit, leads intermodal train NS 278 eastbound out of the yard in Radford, Virginia.

NS 8025, the Monongahela Heritage Unit, leads intermodal train NS 278 eastbound through Elliston, Virginia, along the NS Christiansburg District.

NS 8102 leads manifest train NS 126 out of the yard in Radford, Virginia, as it passes intermodal train NS 278 with the NS 8025 leading.

NS 8102, the PRR Heritage Unit, passes NS 8025 on the eastbound end of the yard in Radford, Virginia.

NS 8102 flys through the small town of Pendleton, MO as its heads westwards across the NS St. Louis District passing one of the handful of searchlights still left along the Ex Wabash/N&W

NS 8102 the PRR heritage unit leads 224 through and above the growing town of Wentvzille, MO after a lengthy wait for 219 which had to wait for MoW at High Hill

A model Pennsylvania Railroad train is seen at a show in LaGrange. The plethora of head-end cars shows how passenger trains depended upon revenue hauling mail. After 1967, the Post Office discontinued most Railway Post Office operations and this eventually led to the creation of Amtrak.

A Pennsylvania RR passenger train is seen at the LaGrange Model Railroad Show. The cars painted in Frisco and Missouri Pacific colors indicate that this might be the Penn-Texas, a New York City-St. Louis train that forwarded cars westward on those railroads.

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April 25, 2009

30th Street Station, officially William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, is a major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station opened in 1933 as Pennsylvania Station–30th Street, replacing the 1881 Broad Street station as the Pennsylvania Railroad's main station in the city. The station is third-busiest Amtrak station in the nation with over 4.1 million passengers as of 2023.
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The yoshino trees in East Potomac Park are just about fully bloomed as Amtrak's Carolinian heads south onto the Long Bridge. The clouds that had been out for much of the morning fortunately cleared out for a little bit.

A cherry tree leans in the direction of the Washington Monument.

The conductor of CSX C750 waves to the crowds traversing the Maine Avenue overpass on their way to the Tidal Basin. The coal train is passing beneath a former PRR signal bridge on the main, while the pedestrians are using the remains of a spur used to serve Water Street's produce yard.

Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad 'Phone Call'
a magazine advert. 1945
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Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad 'Vacation Grandeur'
a promotion poster. 1950s
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PRR cruising thru. 9/67.

There were 8 coupled driver wheels on these locomotives. The "Mikado" steam locomotives were made in the thousands, from the late 19th Century through the 1930s. They could pull heavy loads relatively fast and were used by many rail lines in several countries. Now a memory.

When in visited the Railroad Museum last week, I noticed that birds were "prospecting" the undercarriage of several old pieces in the yard for potential nest sites. Ah, Spring!

June 1939

A northbound Acela Express crosses the Susquehanna River on a cold December afternoon. This bridge was built in 1906 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and carries over 100 trains per day. The stone pier visible on the right side of the bridge is a relic of an earlier bridge built in 1866. Amtrak is working on replacing this bridge, though the process is set to take over a decade to complete.

One of the 31 in PRR stable. Ft.Wayne. 9/67.