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The San Francisco Chief was a late entrant to the Santa Fe’s fleet of “Chiefs,” launched during the mid-1950s between Chicago and its home city. […]

It all begins and ends with the railroad track. Its strength determines how much tonnage a single train can move. Learn about the history of […]

The SD7 was the builder’s first six-axle road-switcher that debuted in 1952, a few years after the GP7.

The Chessie was the Chesapeake & Ohio’s still-born, luxurious all-coach train to serve the Washington, D.C. – Cincinnati corridor.

Milwaukee Road’s boxcabs, listed as Class EF-1 and EP-1, were the first electrics used by the railroad in 1915, products of General Electric and Alco.

The Milwaukee Road, whose official name was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, dates to the mid-19th century and disappeared in 1985.