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A rail-fan favorite, Colorado Narrow Gauge pictures the trains of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Established in 1870, the Rio Grande eventually operated 2,783 miles of track connecting Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Serving mountain communities, farms, and mines from the 1800s into the mid-1900s, the Rio Grande ran trains through mountain gorges, and across the highest rail mainline in America to deliver on the D&RG’s early motto, “Through the Rockies, not around them.”

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Narrow gauge trains featured in this edition include:
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 476 and 478 have stopped at Needleton, CO, to take on water. It is June 1, 1957, the second day of a three-day excursion on the Rio Grande narrow gauge.
• Denver and Rio Grande 487 is on the point of a southbound freight on the Farmington Branch about five miles south of Cedar Hill, NM, on October 30, 1963. At this time, the San Juan Basin Oil Boom was slowing down and most weeks would only see one train on the Farmington Branch.
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 499 is on the point of an east-bound livestock train in October 1963. This one is loaded with sheep. There is a helper on the rear end.
• Rio Grande Southern 42 is leading a westbound scrapping train through Wildcat Canyon, about eight miles west of Durango, CO, on September 11, 1952.
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 493, a Class K-37 2-8-2, is at the coal dock at Alamosa, being prepared for a west-bound train out of Alamosa, CO, in May 1955. This coal dock was a big one, servicing both narrow-gauge and standard-gauge locomotives, even their large Class L-131 2-8-8-2’s.
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 482 is on the point and 486 is a rear-end helper (both are Class K-36 Mikado 2-8-2’s.) on an 11 car east bound Cumbres Turn coming through the east end of the Narrows, a little more than a mile west of Lobato, NM, on June 3, 1957.
• Here is a view of Galloping Goose #4 as originally built, sitting in front of the Ridgway roundhouse on June 29, 1944. Its appearance would completely change during the winter of 1945.
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 480 is leading an eastbound excursion special on the “Old Line” through Arboles, CO, on June 8, 1960. Arboles is located at Milepost 408.8, almost 43 miles east of Durango.
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 490, a Class K-37 Mikado 2-8-2, has a southbound Farmington Turn just starting out of Durango Yard in August 1958.
• Fall colors are at their peak as Denver and Rio Grande Western 498 leads an east-bound freight across the Lobato Trestle four miles east of Chama, NM, in October 1956. The consist is a string of empty flat cars and pipe gondolas being returned to Alamosa for loading more pipe.
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 464, a Class K-27 Mudhen is leading a Silverton mixed train northbound at Rockwood, CO, on September 12, 1956. This is one of an order of 15 locomotives purchased from the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903.
• Denver and Rio Grande Western 473 is making what will be the last ever water stop at Gato, CO, on December 6, 1968. In 1968, the third rail from Alamosa to Antonito was abandoned, as was the line from Chama, NM, to Durango.

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Considered the all-time master of railroad art, Howard Fogg painted the power and majesty of the steel wheel on the steel rail. After rail fans discovered Fogg’s artistry, he spent the next 50 years as a freelance artist reinventing the steam age. In Howard Fogg Trains 2024, his paintings live on, commemorating the great age of railroading.

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Railroads featured in this edition include:
• It is the early winter of 1949, and Chesapeake and Ohio Greenbriar Class J-3 (4-8-4) built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1937 is on the point of a passenger train making a stop at the Thurmond, West Virginia depot.
• Northern Pacific Class A-5 Northern (4-8-4) 2681 is leading an eastbound mail train east of Bozeman, Montana in the winter of 1950. There were ten locomotives in the A-5 class, 2680 through 2689, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and delivered in 1943.
• Pennsylvania Railroad Class GG-1, one of ten motors of this class painted in Tuscan Red to match the color of the Morning Congressional is travelling through a snowy scene north of Philadelphia on its way to New York City, about 85 miles away.
• When the first Union Pacific Railroad 4000 was rolled out of the shop at American Locomotive Company, an unknown employee had chalked the words “Big Boy” on the front of the smokebox. Union Pacific had given thought to calling them “Wahsatches” after the grade they were originally designed to conquer.
• Rio Grande Southern Locomotives 21, a Consolidation (2-8-0) and 23, a Ten Wheeler (4-6-0) are leading a southbound string of varnish across Bridge 45-A, the 470-foot-long Howard Creek Trestle.
• Aliquippa and Southern 1210 is handling switching chores at its parent plant, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The cars are being set out for a pick-up by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, which passes by just outside the gate here.
• Missouri Pacific 356, along with two other units, an FB-2 and an FA-2, is leading an eastbound expedited freight along the Missouri River at Jefferson City, Missouri, on its way to St. Louis in the summer of 1955.
• Locomotive 46238 of the former London, Midland and Scottish Railway is running through verdant green country north of London, England in the summer of 1950. A 4-6-2 designed for passenger train service, 46238 was named City of Carlisle.
• With the temperature hovering near 110 degrees, Union Pacific 1630A (a Model FA with two FBs built in 1949 by the American Locomotive Company trailing) has the westbound Daylight Livestock Express making near passenger train speed as it passes an isolated siding southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada in the Summer of 1949.
• Engine 1401, a Class Ps-4 Pacific (4-6-2), was one of a dozen built by Richmond Locomotive Company in 1926 for passenger train service. Southern Railway had numerous other Pacific-type engines, 261 in total, but these 12 were painted green with gold trim for service on the Crescent.
• In 1927 and 1928, the Baldwin Locomotive Works built a pair of articulated tank engines, numbers 50 and 51. This painting shows Engine 51 coming through Cooley, Colorado.

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In the early years of rail building, a series of lines grew up between New York City, Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo, linking the Great Lakes and the Midwest to the Hudson River and the world. Brought together in 1853 as the New York Central Railroad, the line eventually served half of America’s population, moving passengers in the northeast between New York, Chicago, and Detroit, or from Boston to St. Louis.

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• New York Central 2538, a General Electric Model U-25B and two U30B’s, are heading for New York City, seen here at Spuyten Duyvil, New York on January I, 1968.
• New York Central owned a multitude of switch engines. They also had eight rather obscure seventy ton “critters” built from 1940 to 1942.
• New York Central 5934 and 5791, a GP-9 and a GP7, road switchers built by EMD, are on a passenger train at Granite City, Illinois on October 16, 1963.
• Brand new New York Central 6000, the first of 25 Class S-1a Niagara (4-8-4) engines, is being serviced at the Englewood, Illinois roundhouse in mid-April 1945.
• New York Central 3140, a Class L-4b Mohawk (4-8-2) built in 1943 by the Lima Locomotive Works, is leading a westbound freight out of Poughkeepsie, New York on August 8, 1946.
• New York Central 4020 and 4025 are backing Train #315, a mail and express train, into St. Louis, Missouri Union Station on June 21, 1966. 4020 is an E-7A in an E-8A body.
• New York Central 8276, a 1,600 horsepower Alco/General Electric Model RS-3 Road Switcher, is on the Harlem Division with eastbound commuter train #960 arriving at Chatham, New York on June 20, 1965.
• New York Central 4052, an E-8A with an E-7B second unit (both are EMD locomotives) leads Train #51, the westbound Empire State Express as it passes under the Bear Mountain Bridge on August 3, 1963.
• New York Central 1600, the first of only four EMD Model FTA’s owned by NYC, is leading a freight at Cleveland, Ohio on August 15, 1964.
• New York Central 5451, one of fifty Class J-3a Hudsons (4-6-4), built by the American Locomotive Company in 1937, is hitting the track pans at Chesterton, Indiana with a westbound mail train in October 1945.
• New York Central 3817, a matched A-B-A set of Baldwin “sharknoses,” so named because of their appearance, are waiting a call at the Detroit, Michigan engine terminal in August 1962.
• Here Niagara 4015 is rolling a westbound passenger train through Buffington, Indiana in the winter of 1947. 4015 and its train are about one-half hour east of Chicago’s La Salle Street Station.

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Chartered in Pennsylvania in 1846, construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad began in 1847, and the first all-rail line reached Pittsburgh in 1852. Eventually PRR connected Chicago with Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania Railroad recalls the unique engines and trains of “The Standard Railroad of the World.”

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• This is the original American Freedom Train, seen here on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The seven-car
train carried original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the United States Constitution.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 6164, Texas Type (2-10-4), is leading a 148-car eastbound freight at 71st Street, Chicago, Illinois, on April 27, 1952.
• Nearly-new Pennsylvania Railroad 9782 (Electro-Motive F7A-F7B-F7A, a 4,500-horsepower set,) is leading a westbound freight through Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1951.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 6302, an American Locomotive Company Class C-628, is a point helper on a westbound mail train about two miles west of Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania, on April 6, 1964.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 4922 and seven other Class GG-1 Motors are at Sunnyside Yard, New York, on May 25, 1968.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 2219, 2512, and 2513 (GP-30 and two U25Bs) are on a westbound freight along the Susquehanna River at Duncannon, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 1965.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 5806 (an EMD E8A and two E7As) are rolling along the Susquehanna River, passing View Tower at Duncannon, Pennsylvania, with a westbound mail and passenger train in July 1964.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 4917, a Class GG-1 Motor, leads Train Number #139, The Pelican, through Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on August 15, 1953.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 5791, an EMD E8A-E8B set, is running light at 14th Street near St. Louis Union Station, Missouri. Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy 9925 (an EMD E7A) with three-car Train #43, a St.
Louis to Chicago daily passenger train, sits beside it on September 2, 1954.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 2230 and a New York Central unit lead a westbound freight out of the tunnel at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, in October 1968.
• Pennsylvania Railroad Train #32, the eastbound St. Louisan, is traveling through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on June 16, 1957. Trains 32 and 33, the eastbound and westbound St. Louisans, provided daily service between New York City and St. Louis starting in 1913.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 1398 is one of 238 Class B-6sa and B-6sb locomotives built by the Juniata Shops during a 10-year period from 1916 to 1926.

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Chartered just before the Civil War, during the next three decades the tracks of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe reached from Chicago to Los Angeles. Santa Fe Railway trains provided the country’s most appealing passenger service and for shippers, the most innovative intermodal freight service in America. Santa Fe features classic steam and diesel locomotives working on the ATSF.

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
≈ Santa Fe 1028, a Prairie-type (2-6-2), sits forlornly at the Topeka, KS roundhouse on January 2, 1954. It is one of Santa Fe’s 1014 Class, which consisted of 40 locomotives, all built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1901.
≈ Santa Fe 3003 and 3004 are both 1,600-horse-power Fairbanks-Morse Model H16-44 diesel-electrics, built in early 1951.
≈ Santa Fe 2772, a merger-painted EMD GP30, and five other units are bringing a westbound freight down the Tehachapi Grade at Bealville, CA, on March 27, 1987.
≈ Santa Fe 8, an E-2A built by Electro-Motive in 1938, is leading the Golden Gate Limited at Stockton, CA, in the summer of 1946.
≈ Santa Fe 3780, a Northern-type (4-8-4), is one of ten locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1941.This was Santa Fe’s ten-engine 3776 Class.
≈ Santa Fe 58 leads two PAs, two PBs and another PA with Train #19, the westbound San Francisco Chief at Amarillo, TX, in June 1965.
≈ Santa Fe 87 leads westbound Train #1, the Kansas Cityan at Kansas City, MO, Union Station on July 24, 1967.
≈ Santa Fe 357, three General Electric U28-CGs, is leading Train #15, the westbound Texas Chief at Fort Worth, TX, on September 5, 1966.
≈ Santa Fe 818, an EMD C40-8W, leads four other units on a westbound intermodal train, coming through Becker, NM, on September 20, 1995.
≈ Santa Fe 162 is leading Train #19, The Chief, at 18th Street, Chicago, IL on October 26, 1946.
≈ It is September 12, 1986, and Santa Fe 9530 with three other units assisting has stopped with a westbound manifest freight, while on an adjacent track, an intermodal shooter led by 3818 (an SD50) has also stopped.
≈ Santa Fe 3759 is a Northern-type (4-8-4), one of 14 locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works from 1927 to 1929.

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Southern Pacific Railroad began with a simple idea: to connect San Francisco and San Diego, California, by rail. A century later, Southern Pacific had become one of the largest railroads in America, with lines that stretched from coast to coast (connecting to New York via Morgan Line steamships) and from the south to the northwest. In 1959, SP moved more ton-miles of freight than any other U.S. railroad. Engines featured here reach back to the era of SP steam, and forward to the diesels of the 1970s.

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
√ Southern Pacific 4202 and 4440 are double-heading an outbound passenger special at Mission Tower, Los Angeles, California in January 1955. 4202 is a Class AC-8 (4-8-8-2) articulated, and 4440 is a Class GS-4 Northern (4-8-4) built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works.
√ Southern Pacific 6047, an E9A and an E7B with Rock Island E8A and two E7B’s —all EMD locomotives— are leading Train #3, the Golden State Limited through Alhambra, California on February 24, 1967.
√ Southern Pacific 4468, a Class GS-6 Northern (4-8-4) built in 1943 by the Lima Locomotive Works has suffered a failure and has been cut off from its train.
√ Southern Pacific 8288 is leading a southbound consist of “oil cans” up Tehachapi Pass, seen here coming through Woodford, California at 2:17 p.m. on April 2, 1988.
√ Southern Pacific 9120, a Krause Maffei Model ML-4000 diesel hydraulic, assisted by 6450, an FP-7 and an F7B, is on the point of a railfan special at Oakland, California on April 30, 1967.
√ Southern Pacific 3205 is one of ten SDP-45’s purchased in 1967 to bolster SP’s passenger locomotive fleet which had aged substantially.
√ Southern Pacific F7A 6391 in a classic “black widow” paint scheme with an F7A-F7B-F7A are arriving at Los Angeles, California with Train #58, the Owl on July 31, 1960.
√ Southern Pacific 4743 is leading northbound commuter train #136 near Burlingame, California on August 1, 1955.
√ Southern Pacific 6024, a Class PA2, one of 23 painted in “daylight” colors, with another PA2 (6022), has been assigned to handle Train #28, the San Francisco Overland on September 3, 1953.
√ Southern Pacific 4449 and 4447 are double-headed on a passenger special near Palmdale, California on October 17, 1954. Both locomotives are Class GS-4 Northerns (4-8-4).
√ Southern Pacific 1824, one of three Class M-5 Moguls (2-6-0) built by the Sacramento Shops in 1917, has been called to pick up loaded lettuce cars at El Centro, California on November 27, 1954.
√ In late December 1974 near Mojave, California, Southern Pacific Tunnel Motor (SD40T-2, built by EMD) leads four other eastbound units on an early morning freight from Bakersfield.

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