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James La Vake photographed passenger trains at their peak
Of the many first-rate photographers who became fascinated by postwar railroading, one of the best was James La Vake. An ...
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The great freight paint schemes: Classy hues from the 1940s to the 1980s
Like Great Northern, visions of NP almost always are trains traversing vast ... Check out “Classy passenger locomotive paint ...
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Why Amtrak train tickets are so expensive
Passenger trains used to be owned by private companies ... by rail as their primary mode of transportation. However, by the 1940s, railroads began to become less popular as buses, planes, and ...