Random steam pics thread

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The Pacific Local, the commuter train from Pacific, Mo., to Union Station, stops at a station in Webster Groves in January 1946.

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Missouri Pacific locomotive No. 15 at the station in Bush, Ill., about 10 miles northeast of Carbondale, shortly after making its last coal run on April 6, 1955.

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The crew gets ready to take Missouri Pacific locomotive No. 15 on a final run hauling coal in southern Illinois on April 6, 1955. It was one of the railroad's last 11 steam locomotives, all used to shuttle coal trains north of Carbondale, Ill. The railroad marked the occasion in a brief ceremony in the yard at Bush, Ill., north of Carbondale. Standing are (from left) trainmaster B.B. Brenton, yardmaster W.R. Turnage, Illinois division superintendent Roy W. Parker, brakeman Buck Hestand, conductor Otto Beeson, and brakeman N.C. Vaughn. In the cab are (left) fireman Ray Masters and engineer Ed Spegal. The following day, the 11 engines were hauled to the scrapyard in Dupo.

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No. 40, the helper engine, belches coal smoke behind No. 124 as they pull nine others like them, all headed for the scrapping shop. In front of the helper is a tank car carrying water. That was needed because the railroad already had removed most of its trackside water tanks. The photo was taken from the tender of No. 124, in the lead.

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Locomotive No. 124 and a helper engine pull the rest of the Missouri Pacific's last steam locomotives across the Illinois countryside on April 7, 1955, on their way to Dupo, where they were scrapped. From then on, the St. Louis-based railroad used only diesel power.

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In a final indignity to the age and romance of steam, the Missouri Pacific blows up its last coaling tower in the St. Louis area in December 1955, eight months after retiring its last steam locomotives. The tower, in the Dupo yard, was built in 1917. The railroad's last 11 steam locomotives were taken to Dupo in April 1955 for scrapping.

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And they ran out of coal, and a diesel had to pull them the last few miles.

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Dupo was just across the Jefferson Barracks Bridge from me in my teenage years and where we could go to make underage beer runs.

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Naughty naughty Terry.


But I really like the images of articulated engines going around a tight curve.  It's like the engine is running along and then it has to swerve and goes "nope nope nope nope nope gotta stay on the rails...".