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A Casper man’s lifelong passion for railroading led to a career as a passenger train conductor. The 82-year-old loves trains ...
A railfan remembers encounters with the familiar 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive type on multiple railroads around the Great ...
In partnership with Friends of No. 9, the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento will display the beautifully ...
Baldwin S-10 0-6-0 locomotive, previously housed at Roeding Park in Fresno, will be moved to the Kingsburg Depot on May 28, ...
Celebrated rail photographer John Kirkland set out to film every type of steam locomotive that ... life work documenting the Southern Pacific empire the railroad that shaped California and much ...
At the southern end of the Kern County Museum’s Pioneer Village sits a grand turn-of-the-century steam ... The locomotive, among the largest and most powerful of the Southern Pacific Railroad ...
but the steam locomotives draw a lot of attention. Included are the "Southern Pacific 4449", also called "The Daylight" (so named because it could make the trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles ...
The San Luis Obispo Southern Pacific Railroad roundhouse in 1953. The last of Southern Pacific’s steam locomotives pulled out of the roundhouse in September 1956. San Luis Obispo County ...