Trains

News photos: Norfolk Southern-Union Pacific business train

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Southern Pacific steam locomotives; a pictorial anthology of western railroading

"The major portion of this book comes from a periodical of the former Baldwin Locomotive Works ... Baldwin locomotives." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac ...
The Bakersfield Californian

Bakersfield Matters: Hop aboard the Kern County Steam Train Southern Pacific #2914

At the southern end of the Kern County Museum’s Pioneer Village sits a grand turn-of-the-century steam locomotive, an impressive nod to a bygone era, that will be celebrated in July, 69 years after it ...
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Union Pacific, Wabtec sign $1.2 billion deal for locomotive modernizations

PITTSBURGH - Union Pacific and Wabtec have signed a $1.2 billion agreement to modernize UP AC4400 locomotives, which Wabtec says is the largest locomotive modernization investment in rail industry ...
Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Will Chicago see fewer freight trains after the megamerger of Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific?

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...