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Trains. That is all.

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Sodem
March 1976.
An N&W freight led by GP40 1601 starts up the N&W connection at Sodem, just west of Connellsville PA

#trains #history #photography #70s #norfolk #emd #western #connellsville #pennsylvania #yard #high #hood #diesel #locomotive
six black blocky high hood diesel locomotives of the norfolk & western railroad round a bend over a bridge.
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Different Faces
February 1976.
Six different variations of Norfolk and Western motive power sit at the B&O at Connellsville, PA. (See alt text) Robert Tokacik collection

#trains #history #photography #70s #norfolk #emd #western #connellsville #pennsylvania #yard #high #hood #diesel #locomotive
N&W high hood GP38AC 4100, GP9 502, ex-NKP GP7 2439, GP40 1383, GP35 1304 and what appears to be a GP40
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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The Human Element
April 15, 1978.
One of my favorite things about railroad photography is the human aspect of it. Fans and employees, all bring something to a scene.

#trains #history #photography #70s #norfolk #ge #western #northeast #pennsylvania #yard #high #hood #diesel #locomotive
At North East, Pennsylvania, an older gentleman rides on the steps of N&W high hood U30B 8491 as they work local industries along the lake shore
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Welcome to the Family
April 1976.
Although its after April 1st, 1976, you can't tell Conrail has begun. Three PC units and an EL SDP45 are hurrying a merchandise train through Leetsdale, PA

#trains #history #photography #70s #emd #SD #black #diesel #leetsdale #pennsylvania #freight #penn #central
Three black Penn Central locomotives, and a third in the grey and maroon livery of the old Erie Lackawanna Railroad, lead a train of new automobiles on flatcars.
August 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Helper Service
December 1975.
A trio of ALCO products, one being a rare RS27, shoves a westbound uphill through Greensburg, PA

#trains #70s #history #photography #penn #central #black #helper #alco #diesel #rare #greensburg #pennsylvania
It's winter, there is snow. Three black Penn Central diesel locmotives push a train uphill (note the green caboose). All three are products of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), an RS27 and 2 C425s
August 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Keystone Memories
October 1976.
Penn Central U25B 2642 sits at the East Park engine house at Conway, Pennsylvania.

#trains #70s #history #photography #penn #central #shop #ge #general #electric #uboat #conway #pennsylvania #black #heritage
You can see at least three reminders of the PRR on this unit: there's a Keystone on the long hood under the radiator grills, there's another on the short hood and the yellow PRR letters are poking through under the PC applied ones under the cab window.
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Death Sentence
June 1977.
Penn Central Baldwin DRS-4-4-1000 8302's life is over in June 1977. It's death sentence is painted under the cab (see alt text).

#trains #70s #history #photography #scrap #dead #baldwin #diesel #penn #central #black
A large black diesel locomotive, marked for scrap by the text chalked on the cabside that reads: " Naporano Iron & Metal Co, Foot of Hawkins St., Newark, New Jersey, Conrail Delivery, 25 Miles Per HR"
August 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Prime Mover Car
June 1977.
Penn Central 73600', a former F7B, was rebuilt to haul EMD 567 prime movers from old F and E units for the RS3m rebuild program

#trains #70s #history #photography #emd #alco #grey #special #duty #diesel #motor #rebuild #booster
Penn Central 73600, an old F7B cabless 'booster' locomotive, rebuilt into a special freight car to transport large diesel motors used in locomotives. Small text on the side reads "WHEN EMPTY RETURN TO JUNIATA LOCOMOTIVE SHOP"
August 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Snow Day
January 3, 1981.
MGA GP38 2000 is starting to look a little ragged while working some empties under the Humphery Mine tipple at Maidsville, West Virginia.
#trains #80s #history #photography #monongahela #maidsville #westvirginia #emd #geep #black #winter #snow
two black diesel locomotives push a green caboose and a line of hopper cars from behind, in the midst of a heavy snow
August 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Who Left the Light On?
March 3, 1980.
Monongahela Railway GP38 2001 sits on the stub track at the south end of Maidsville Yard, waiting for the morning and a crew to shift out the yard.
#trains #80s #history #photography #monongahela #maidsville #westvirginia #emd #geep #black #night #light
Monongahela Railway GP38 2001 sits on the stub track at the south end of Maidsville Yard, waiting for the morning and a crew to shift out the yard.
August 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Late Nights at Maidsville
March 3, 1980.
Monongahela Railway GP38s 2003 and 2001 at Maidsville, WV Behind them, the lights from the beltway of the Humphrey Mine can be seen spanning the yard.
#trains #80s #history #photography #monongahela #maidsville #westvirginia #emd #geep #black #night #light
Monongahela Railway GP38s 2003 and 2001 at Maidsville, WV Behind them, the lights from the beltway of the Humphrey Mine can be seen spanning the yard.
August 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Red, White and Black
February 6, 1979.
Monongahela Railway GP38 2000 sits at Maidsville, West Virginia with her better looking sister, Bicentennial unit #2002

#trains #70s #history #photography #caboose #monongahela #maidsville #westvirginia #emd #geep #bicentennial #red #white #blue
A black diesel locomotive with an orange M on the side and the number 200, with red white and (out of frame) blue #2002 behind it.
August 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Around the Shop
January 20, 1978. MGA GP7 1508 sits in the snow at the Monongahela Railway's Brownsville shops

#trains #80s #history #photography #monongahela #brownsville #pennsylvania #emd #geep #black #yelow #winter #snow #shop
a black diesel locomotive sits next to a large building.
August 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Yellow Nose
January 1981.
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie U28B 2808 has the yellow cab and nose stripe here at Connellsville, PA

#trains #70s #history #photography #pittsburg #pennsylvania #connellsville #lake #erie #ge #general #electric #uboat #universal #black #yellow
For such a small road, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie sure had many variations of its paint scheme. U28B 2808 has the yellow cab and nose stripe here at Connellsville, PA
August 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Das U Boot
December 5, 1976.
P&LE U28B lays over at Connellsville, PA.

#trains #70s #history #photography #pittsburg #pennsylvania #connellsville #lake #erie #ge #general #electric #uboat #universal #black
Pittsburg & Lake Erie General Electric U28B diesel locomotive More paint scheme variants at play here: sub-lettering under the window, road number is jade green with a white background, yellow cab door and no lettering at all on the long hood
August 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em
July 9, 1977.
British Columbia Railway S13 1001 hustles about the Vancouver engine facility

#trains #70s #history #photography #vancouver #bc #rail #mlw #alco #twotone #green
A two tone green diesel switcher locomotive BELCHES a plume of exhaust smoke like a steam engine.
August 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Bought Used from Uncle Pete

October 22, 1978.

Montour Railroad 36 used to belong to the Union Pacific before being purchased by the Montour

#trains #70s #history #photography #caboose #green #used #montour #coraopolis #pennsylvania #steel #industrial
two green caboooses (cabeese?)
August 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Big Man In Town
July 14, 1977. UP DDA40X 6933 rolls next to the Cheyenne depot
#trains #history #photography #70s #cheyenne #wyoming #giant #yard #union #pacific #emd #yellow #freight
A massive twin engine DDA40x diesel locomotive next to an old train station
August 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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August 8, 1981. A myriad of locomotive models are represented at the UP's major locomotive repair facility at Omaha, Nebraska

#trains #80s #history #photography #union #pacifc #yellow #shops #omaha #nebraska #service #emd #ge
A massive shop complex full of yellow locomotives of the Union Pacifc Railroad. Visible are EMD GP7/9s, General Electric 'U-boats', six axle SD models, an SW10 switcher, the primed hood of SD40-2 #3749 on a flat car, and an old passenger car
August 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Odd Man Out

August 8, 1981.

UP U30C 2933 is awash in a sea of Cascade green at Galesburg, IL.

#trains #80s #history #photography #union #pacific #yellow #emd #galesburg #illinois #burlington #northern #cascade #green #ge #general #electric #uboat #summer
Union Pacific 2933, a General Electric U30C diesel locomotive, painted yellow with get and red trim, sits among many Cascade Green locomotives of the Burlington Northern Railway.
August 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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1981. The"Mount Rainier" passes Continental Grain's Tacoma, WA Facility. F40PH #215 meets Pacific Transportation Services #122.

#trains #history #photography #tacoma #washington #amtrak #grain #elevator #pnw #pacific #fm #fairbanks #morse #diesel #yellow #industrial #emd
An amtrak train passes a row of trees on the left, and a large grain elevator on the right, with a yellow diesel locomotive parked next to them.
August 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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PTS 121 (ex-Weyerhauser #1) switching at Continental Grain.
7/15/1981. Now preserves at the Northwest Railway Museum Snoqualmie WA.

#trains #80s #tacoma #washington #pnw #pacific #fm #fairbanks #morse #diesel #yellow #industrial
A very square high hood diesel locomotive, painted yellow with a blue stripe and frames
August 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Pacific Transportation Services 122
Fairbanks-Morse H10-44
b. 5-1949 as Chehalis Western 492
Seen here in Tacoma 8-11-1982
Scrapped in 1987

#trains #80s #tacoma #washington #pnw #pacific #fm #fairbanks #morse #diesel #yellow #industrial
A very square high hood diesel locomotive, painted yellow with a blue stripe and frames, marked "PTS 122" coupled to a green hopper car.
August 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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June 20. 1975
AM Beyers Co. #2. A General Electric 45-ton diesel.
McKees Rocks, PA
Tim Vermande collectrion

#trains #70s #pennsylvania #mckees #rocks #ge #tonner #industrial #red #center #cab #shop
a dark red center cab diesel locomotive.
August 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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August 1975. Aliquippa & Southern SW1200 1208 is all dressed up for the nation's bicentennial.

#trains #70s #history #photography #bicentennial #aliquippa #emd
an emd sw1200 switcher diesel locomotive painted red white and blue an emd sw1200 switcher diesel locomotive painted red white and blue
August 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM