An Amtrak special move, with private car Ohio River at the back, rolls along Canadian Pacific’s former Delaware & Hudson main line on Sept. 4, 2009. The train is on its way from Albany, N.Y., to Railfest 2009 in Scranton, Pa. Jim Conroy photo […]
This map reflects an average day for the Union Pacific Railroad in late 2003. Trains per line per day is indicated above each major line segment except where data is not available. These numbers have changed little since our previous UP trains-per-day map in the November 2001 issue, except for the Sunset Route between West […]
Passengers enter Los Angeles Union Station during the 2009 winter holidays. Railroads continue to play an important – and growing – role in California’s well-patronized public transportation. Scott Lothes Shadowed by the Vincent Thomas Bridge, doublestacked containers rest in the hold yard outside of APL’s Global Gateway South Terminal located within the Port of Los […]
A supplement to the Classic Trains Online Look Back e-mail newsletter Susquehanna 2514, a well-cared-for Pacific built for the Erie in 1905, strides out of Pompton Lakes, N.J., with a westbound commuter run. Theodore B. Kerr The New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad evokes in me almost palpable feelings of ownership. Having been born a […]
When the TRAINS staff began preparing its April 2010 report on obscure coal moves in North America, we got more photos than we bargained for. In no particular order, here are five more cool coal moves. Two SD90MACs on lease to Wheeling & Lake Erie lead two run-through Union Pacific diesels on a Powder River […]
The stack-top addition to John J. Craig Co. Shay No. 2147 may have caused more sparks than it arrested. T. G. King photo, C. K. Marsh Jr. collection Hard by the campus of the 1950’s-era University of Tennessee lay the modest Knoxville terminal of the storied Smoky Mountain Railroad. Several postwar railfan students, including me, […]
Wisconsin & Southern freight train passes a tobacco shed near Stoughton, Wisconsin, on Feb. 6, 2008, in the middle of a hard winter season. The mid-morning darkness and blizzard-like conditions give a very impressionistic feel to the photograph. Hank Koshollek Winter photography requires some skill and quite a bit of luck, partly because of the […]
This Map of the Month appeared in the January 2006 issue of Trains magazine. Pick up any state highway map and the multi-lane roads are shown prominently. Most railroad maps don’t distinguish between single and double track, however, so to compile this map of U.S. multiple-track main lines, a variety of other sources had to be […]
Rare find: Working in Cajon Pass helper service, Santa Fe center-cab Baldwin 2600 heads west at Summit. David Lustig collection I think I was about 14 or 15 when the word got out that I liked trains. It was not a secret, you understand, but unless I seriously misjudged him, I don’t think my father […]
A westbound loaded BNSF Railway coal train exits Montana Rail Link’s 3,986-foot-long Mullan Tunnel on Sept. 16, 2006. Tom Danneman As detailed in the February 2010 issue of TRAINS, ventilating exhaust from Mullan Pass tunnel has been a challenge since its completion in 1883. This sequence of photos, taken by TRAINS Art Director Tom Danneman, […]
British-built 141F 2111 looks good at Oural, Spain, on Oct. 10, 2003, but Schenectady, N.Y.,-built FD7 No. 1812 is pushing on the rear. J.W. Swanberg Renfe Alco FD7 No. 1808 at Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, is intact, but lacking a prime mover and a main generator on Oct. 11, 2003. J.W. Swanberg Another […]
Click the image to download a PDF of this article as it would appear in TRAINS magazine. Before they were stars: United Railways of Yucatan’s steam power was nearing the end of regular service when these images were made. No. 274 was powering a mixed train at Tecoh, Yuc., on Oct. 4, 1964, two days […]
