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Left:
010480: Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah. |
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010475: School children from Idaho pose with the replica
locomotives at the Golden Spike National Historic site,
much as dignitaries and railroad workers did on May 10,
1869, marking the completion of the First
Transcontinental Railroad |
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All above:
Additional views from Golden Spike National Historic
Site, Utah. |
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Left: 900059: The Sierra Scene at
the California State Railroad Museum (CSRM), Sacramento,
Calif.
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Right: 930644: Early wood-sided
Wagons-Lits equipment for the Orient Express, Dutch
National Railway Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Left:
920599: Southern Pacific E-9A passenger diesel in the
"Daylight" paint scheme at the CSRM. |
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Right: 930649: Classic Wagons-Lits
livery on a European dining car Dutch National Railway
Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Left:
770392; Right: 770389: Preserved Southern Railway steam
locomotive 1401, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.
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Left:
880187: Main station clock, York, England. |
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Right: 880174: Early and ultimately
unsuccessful example of tilt-train technology in the
British National Railway Museum, York, England.
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Left:
980955: Trainman's lantern, employee timetables, and a
switch key. (From private collections.) |
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Right: 900322: The scenery in Donner
Pass in California's high Sierra Mountains has changed
little since the 1860s when the First Transcontinental
Railroad was built.
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Left:
780860 Though only built in small numbers, the GE BQ23-7
diesel locomotive was an important transitional model of
the late 1970s. See the larger image for details. Right: 810883
The sleeping kitten Chessie pain scheme was one of the
most distinctive of the 1980s.
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Left:
770478 Detail of ex-Southern Railway steam locomotive
4501. Right:
770488 Preserved ex-Southern Railway steam locomotive
4501 during a night-time layover in Raleigh, N.C., 1977.
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Left:
950904 Even some fairly recent events now qualify as
history. On May 25, 1995, the state of North Carolina
inaugurated its Raleigh-Charlotte-Raleigh
"Piedmont" passenger train service. The trains
are operated by Amtrak with state-owned equipment. |
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