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On Jan. 13, 1952, Southern Pacific’s flagship passenger train the City of San Francisco, en route from Chicago to the City-by-the-Bay, became hopelessly marooned in a snowfall of historic proportions a few miles west of Donner Summit.

http://www.rgj.com/story/life/2016/01/14/breck-1-stranded-train-226-passengers-0-lawsuits/78816618/

Southern Pacific Cab Forward Steam Locomotives SP AC-4 Cab forward by Broadway Limited.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/cabforward/?page=sp

Santa Fe 3000 Steam Locomotive. The first "Santa Fe" type locomotives on the Southern Pacific Railroad were ten delivered by the American Locomotive Company in 1917.

http://utesori.pev.pl/sp-railroad-engine-2-10-2.php

Front view of steam locomotive J 1211 at the 100 year anniversary of the North Island Main Trunk Railway, in Feilding, New Zealand, lined up in a locomotive cavalcade. As of 2011, this locomotive was kept by Mainline Steam in its Auckland depot at Parnell. 26 October 2008 Author: Pseudopanax at en.wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Locomotive_J_1211_front.jpg

New York Central Railroad Niagara #6015, photographed by Otto Perry on June 30, 1956 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC_Niagara

Engine 374 pulling the first passenger train into Vancouver - May 23, 1887. The event coincided with Queen Victoria's 50th Anniversary on the throne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_374#/media/File:First_train_to_arrive_in_Vancouver.jpg

Lima-built L1c #2631 in 1930, after a feedwater heater was added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC_Mohawk#/media/File:NYC_L1c_2631.jpg

After taking delivery of the Train of Tomorrow from Pullman, General Motors sent the train on a 65,000-mile tour of the continent. Starting in Chicago, the train first took a shake-down and publicity cruise to French Lick, Indiana.

http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=950

The Over-Sea Railroad, the final link of Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railroad that ran from Jacksonville to Key West, was the most ambitious engineering project undertaken by a private citizen. palmbeachillustrated.com

1953 Florida East Coast Railroad Steam Engine 270 Ready Track West Palm Beach FL

Electroliner enters the Chicago Loop…

http://cruiselinehistory.com/the-electroliner-90-miles-per-hour-from-milwaukee-to-chicago/

The Electroliner… 90 MILES PER HOUR… FROM MILWAUKEE TO CHICAGO…

http://cruiselinehistory.com/the-electroliner-90-miles-per-hour-from-milwaukee-to-chicago/

At Albuquerque, N.Mex., Santa Fe No. 17, the Super Chief (at left behind E units) has caught up to a late-running train 19, the Chief, at 4:20 p.m. on a spring day in 1946. The Super left Chicago 7 hours after No. 19 and was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles 1 hour 15 minutes earlier. Fred N. Houser photo.

http://cruiselinehistory.com/1940s-and-1950s-the-golden-age-of-american-passenger-trains/

Two Denver & Rio Grande Western Alco PA’s and an EMD F3B twist through South Boulder Canyon east of Pinecliff, Colo., with the California Zephyr in mid-1951. The Alcos wear a short-lived silver-and-orange paint scheme.W. H. Mitchell photo.

http://cruiselinehistory.com/1940s-and-1950s-the-golden-age-of-american-passenger-trains/

NW 611 Norfolk & Western Steam 4-8-4 at Atlanta, Georgia by RailfanTerry

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/484840716110217308/

Lehigh Valley's flagship passenger train The Black Diamond ran between New York City and Buffalo until 1959, when the LV's passenger service was reduced to (2) mainline trains a day. The John Wikes and The Maple Leaf lasted until February 1961. Photographer Art Bleam, RL Collection.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/485713/

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