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This remarkable collection of classic steam locomotives and trains offers thundering power and great style through more than 50 years of railroading. Locomotives include: a Rogers-built Consolidation 2-8-0 from 1905, Boston and Maine Pacific 4-6-2s from 1911, C & N W streamlined Hudson 4-6-4 from 1938, Burlington’s Morning Zephyr, and more. Don’t miss the call!

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Locomotives and railroads featured in this edition include:
• Gulf Mobile and Ohio Alco FA-FB-FA set
• DRG Krause-Maffei Diesel Hydraulics
• Burlington’s Morning Zephyr
• N&W pair of Class A 2-6-6-4s
• Western Maryland Baldwin 2-8-0s from 1921
• Boston and Maine Pacific 4-6-2s from 1911
• C & N W streamlined Hudson 4-6-4 from 1938
• Union Pacific Big Boy 4003
• Rogers-built Consolidation 2-8-0 from 1905
• Western Pacific’s California Zephyr

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The Union Pacific pioneered transcontinental rail service. Running freight through half of America meant long consists hauled by some of the largest locomotives ever built. From the steam era, Union Pacific pictures giants ranging from a Bull Moose 2-8-8-0, the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, on to the innovative gas turbine, the 6,600 hp Centennial
and more classic rail images. Roll on!

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• Union Pacific 830 is on the point of westbound Train #23, the Gold Coast leaving Omaha, NE, on January 17, 1954. 830 was one of 45 Northern-type (4-8-4) locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company for Union Pacific.
• Union Pacific 9032, a ponderous 4-12-2, is leading an eastbound freight a few miles east of Gothenburg, NE, on February 11, 1952.
• Union Pacific 428, a Consolidation (2-8-0), is on westbound Mixed Train #83 near St. Libory, NE, in October 1958.
• Union Pacific Motorcar M-40, a Brill Motorcar built in 1928, is coming through Sand Creek Junction, CO, running as Train #57 a few miles north of Denver on May 3, 1952.
• Union Pacific Bull Moose (2-8-8-0) 3541 is a point helper, assisting Challenger (4-6-6-4) 3951 on a westbound freight four miles west of Cheyenne, WY on May 23, 1953.
• Union Pacific Gas Turbine 65 is double-headed with 4001 (4-8-8-4) on an eastbound freight two miles east of Sherman, WY, on June 17, 1956.
• Union Pacific 7008 (4-8-2 Mountain) has a westbound 51-car freight rolling through Columbus, NE on October 25, 1952. It was one of 40 locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company, designed for passenger train service in Oregon’s Blue Mountains.
• Union Pacific 3818, a Challenger (4-6-6-4) sits under the coal dock at Valley, NE, after taking on fuel and water on September 8, 1957.
• Union Pacific 4021, a westbound Big Boy (4-8-8-4) is leaving Harriman, WY, after stopping for coal and water with a 52-car freight on September 26, 1955.
• Union Pacific was just getting started in the double-stack business when this 130-car stacker, one of the earliest American President Lines trains, came rolling through Borie, WY just past noon on October 8, 1987.
• Union Pacific 4466, an 0-6-0 switcher, was a common sight around Cheyenne, WY for years. It survived the era of steam power scrapping. It was built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1920 and remained in service at Cheyenne.
• Centennials were named because the first were delivered in the Centennial year of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Here are three three Centennials, 6941, 6908 and 6915 on the #3 track one mile west of West Speer, WY, on December 8, 1979.

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Beginning in 1852, Rock Island built lines from Chicago north to Minneapolis, west to Denver and south to Galveston on more than 10,000 miles of track. Locomotives pictured here range from a steam-era 2-8-0 Mikado built in 1906, an M-50 4-8-2 from 1920, and early diesels, as well as named trains like the Peoria Rocket and more. As the song says, “Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line.”
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Locomotives and trains featured include:
√ Rock Island 400, a Class H15-44 and one of only two purchased from Fairbanks-Morse, was delivered in December 1948.
√ Rock Island 4347 and four other EMD Model GP-38-2s lead a freight at Memphis, TN, on February 19, 1977.
√ Rock Island 1732, an oil-fired Class C-43 Mikado (2-8-0), is leading a westbound freight near Tucumcari, NM, on May 11, 1940. 1732, built in 1906 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is in its last year of service.
√ Rock Island 646 and another E8A are leading Train #12, the eastbound “Peoria Rocket” making a station stop at Joliet, IL, on April 25, 1969.
√ Rock Island 639 and 632 (both EMD E-7As) are leading eastbound Train 502, the “Peoria Rocket” out of Peoria, IL, headed for Chicago on July 15, 1959.
√ Rock Island “Jet Rocket” (Model LWT-12) 3 is leading a southbound commuter train approaching Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL, on June 2, 1960.
√ Rock Island 602, a Model TA, one of six built for the Rock Island in 1937 by Electro-Motive Corporation in 1937, is at Council Bluffs, IA in the summer of 1953.
√ Rock Island 1341, an EMD GP18 delivered in January 1960, is leading two other EMD units, both GP-9’s, with a “Royal American Circus” train in tow southbound at Dayton’s Bluff, St. Paul, MN, on August 27, 1969.
√ When it came to commuter trains, Rock Island had a big power selection. Here is 495, one of 15 Model RS-3s received from the American Locomotive Company in September 1950.
√ Rock Island 658 and a B Unit are on the point of Train #10, the eastbound “Corn Belt Rocket” at the Omaha, NE, depot on November 15, 1969.
√ Rock Island 4020, a Class M-50 oil-fired Mountain (4-8-2) built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in 1920, is leaving Denver, CO on November 26, 1949 with an eastbound mixed train
√ Rock Island 93, an EMD Model FTA, sits at Council Bluffs, IA, with an FTB and an F-2A on December 29, 1952.

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