781 reactions · 251 shares | ️All aboard for VICTORY this Labor Day Weekend! ️ Dress your vintage best for the living history event of the year with our 1940s big band dance, historic train rides, photo shoots, reenactments, and more! Events are selling out and trains are filling up –don't miss it! Tickets start at just $25.00. | Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society | Facebook

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75K views · 4.8K reactions | Many railroads and many steam locomotives at St. Louis Union Station in the 1940s. From the Herron Rail Video show "Glory Machines, Volume 5" https://rfd.video/GloryMachines5 | Steam Giants | Facebook

Some steam locomotives are elegant, and some are powerful, but very few are as strange and as brilliant as this one. Meet the Southern Railway Q1 Class — the most powerful 0-6-0 steam locomotive ever built in Britain. Designed for war, built for hard work, and unlike anything else on the rails. This is the incredible story behind Britain’s ugliest, yet most impressive freight engine. In the early 1940s, the Southern Railway was under immense pressure. London was a key hub for troops, supplies, a