Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

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Rock Island Railroad (Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific). Commuter train perhaps?

 

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Think I might have posted this Winston O. Link photo before but it is so cool it deserves a re run...

 

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British rail?...

 

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Leigh Valley Alco locomotive. Love the architecture on the train station...Town made famous by Billy Joel, Allentown PA

 

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Have a feeling Tatamy is no longer the main line...

 

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Yeah the laundry is hanging out. Why do you ask?

 

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Caption says Rochester, Pennsylvania...

 

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Cannot imagine the noise of these rotating dumps...

 

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Every once in a while I have to offer my 2 cents worth.... Which in the 30's was likely the cost of riding a train

Memphis Tennessee crossing the Mississippi

 

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Getting her ready to roll...

 

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Gulf, Mobile and Ohio on the Alton Route that served the 284 mile Chicago to St. Louis corridor. The reference to Ann Rutledge was another passenger line the GMO operated.

 

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In the land of really big people or perhaps really small trains...

 

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In the land of really big people or perhaps really small trains...

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I think that was the first park ride at Disney.

 

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Beach Boys waiting for a train to pass...

 

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I think he could have made it across....

 

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Lonely looking place...

 

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The dirty 30's I expect. Great picture.