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55 years ago today on May 7th 1969, EMD Delivers the first DD40AX centennial locomotive, 6900, to Union Pacific just in time for the 100 anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. These "Big Jacks" are the worlds strongest diesel engines at a staggering 6600 horsepower.
3 days ago · Wendler said List went on to become the “Father of German Railroads.”. His Tamaqua rail line is hailed as the first railroad in America to transport coal using a steam engine. Steam was chosen over human or animal power. It could carry three-ton loads twice a day, taking 2.5 hours for each trip to Port Clinton.
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3 days ago · 59: full dome built by Pullman-Standard, Lot 6908, Plan 7635 built in 1952 as Milwaukee Road 59, ex-Amtrak 9383. Iowa Pacific picked up full dome 59 in 2012 from Washington Central/Columbia Basin - Spirit of Washington 108 carried named City of Renton. Car was used on Iowa Pacific's Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay operation in California.
The rail line connects to the Union Pacific Railroad and California Northern Railroad and has hosted special trains from Amtrak as well as private excursion trains. In June 2009, the St. Helena City Council voted to allow the Wine Train passengers to disembark in St. Helena on a trial basis on the first Friday of the month (May–October).
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2 days ago · 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Electrification. 1200 V DC Overhead lines. The East Bay Electric Lines were a unit of the Southern Pacific Railroad that operated electric interurban -type trains in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] [2] [3] Beginning in 1862, the SP and its predecessors [4] operated local steam-drawn ...
2 days ago · Amazing historic photos of America’s railroads. By 1860, the United States had more than 30,000 miles of rails, and when the Civil War broke out it became the world’s first railway war.
3 days ago · Some other stops were Easton, Flemington, South Plainfield and Newark. Mike saw one of the last Black Diamonds at Cementon in early May 1959; a week later, May 11, 1959, it succumbed to history. The last regular LVRR passenger train run was on a cold, snowy day, passing Allentown 2:30 p.m. Feb. 2, 1961.
