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Rails Across the Lower Lakes

Less famous than their Lake Michigan cousins, railroad car ferries sailed Lakes Erie and Ontario for more than half a century.

'Madam, this is not the smoking lounge.'

A trip on the Southern’s Asheville Special becomes part of a family’s lore

Disappearing delta blues

Rails retreat from the lonely flatlands south of Sacramento

Color from a Black-and-White pioneer

Donald W. Furler helped write the “rules” of action photography in the 1930s and ’40s, then tried color in the ’50s.

What's in a photo?

New York Central 4-8-2 westbound at Waterloo, Ind., 1949

Working for the Penn Central

A passion for trains as a college student turned into a brief railroad career

Ingles Color Classics: Santa Fe, all the way to the 1964 Rose Bowl

Rides on AT&SF’s two transcontinental routes opened up new vistas

Best of everything

The Chicago Division was small in mileage but immense in its impact on the C&NW

More in this issue

WELCOME
•J. David Ingles, 1941-2020

FAST MAIL
•Letters from readers on our Fall 2020 issue

THE WAY IT WAS
•Tales from rail fans and railroaders

BUMPING POST
•FEC’s Miami station

HEAD END
•A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

TRUE COLOR
‘Pere Marquette’ passing Rougemere

MILEPOSTS
Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe

CAR STOP
Philly’s boulevard for Bullets