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ISBN 9781627005098 – via Google Books. Categories: Southern Pacific Railroad. Diesel locomotives of the United States. Preserved steam locomotives of the United States. Rail passenger cars of the United States. Rolling stock of the United States. Rail transportation preservation in the United States.
Caboose. A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in switching and shunting, keeping a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles. Originally flatcars fitted with cabins or ...
Stock car (rail) In railroad terminology, a stock car or cattle car is a type of rolling stock used for carrying livestock (not carcasses) to market. A traditional stock car resembles a boxcar with louvered instead of solid car sides (and sometimes ends) for the purpose of providing ventilation; stock cars can be single-level for large animals ...
July 29, 1948–April 8, 1986. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Eagle Mountain Railroad (EMRR) was a private railroad in California, owned by the Kaiser Steel Corporation, and is owned today by Kaiser Steel's successor, Kaiser Ventures, Inc. of Ontario, California. The EMRR is 51 miles (82 km) long and is ...
May 16, 2011. The Missouri Pacific Railway Caboose No. 928 is a historic caboose, located near Market and Vine Streets in Bald Knob, Arkansas, near the former Missouri Pacific Depot. It is a cupola caboose, measuring 34 feet 2 inches (10.41 m) in length and 10 feet 0.5 inches (3.061 m) in width, with a height of 14 feet 8.125 inches (4.47358 m).
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (reporting mark SLSF), commonly known as the " Frisco ", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to November 21, 1980. At the end of 1970, it operated 4,547 miles (7,318 km) of road on 6,574 miles (10,580 km) of track ...
One of the DM&IR's 2-8-8-4 locomotives preserved in Two Harbors, Minnesota Caboose C-74, built in 1924, operating in train service at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. By July 1938, the two railways merged to form the DM&IR. The two operating divisions, the Missabe and the Iron Range, were based upon the predecessor roads.
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