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West Side Lumber No. 12 West Side Lumber No. 8 Georgetown Loop No. 40 GOLDEN, Colo. — One of the largest and most extensive collections of historic narrow gauge equipment in the West is up for sale. Lindsey and Rosa Ashby, the operators of the Georgetown Loop narrow gauge railroad out of Georgetown, Colo., from […]
Oct. 7, 1997, was a perfect day to witness Conrail’s Office Car Special rolling east through the Berkshires on the Boston & Albany line at Bancroft, Mass. Photo by Robert Jordan […]
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FULL SCREEN Brian Buchanan A Canadian National steam excursion train, led by CN 4-8-2 No. 6060 makes its way to Spadina Avenue engine facilities in Toronto on July 27, 1977. FULL SCREEN Brian Buchanan Three diesels rest outside the Spadina Avenue engine facilities in Toronto on July 27, 1977. FULL SCREEN Brian Buchanan Canadian National […]
Join Trains’ Editor Jim Wrinn on a three-day adventure watching Union Pacific Big Boy-type No. 4014 take its first baby steps toward restoration in Pomona, Calif. Jim’s three-minute time lapse video documents the painstaking work of Union Pacific’s heritage department in hand-laying track and carefully towing the giant 4-8-8-4 locomotive in sweltering early autumn weather. […]
Join Trains Associate Editor Steve Sweeney on a guided tour of Big Boy No. 4014 – from the firebox! Narration provided by Union Pacific’s senior manager of heritage operations, Ed Dickens Jr. […]
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Empty oil cans return to the oil field of North Dakota behind two fresh Norfolk Southern GE ES44ACs. BNSF Railway train U-NSDFYN rolls west up the BNSF’s St. Croix Subdivision on July 8, 2013. Photo by Matt Krause […]
MEDINA, Ohio – Famed author, artist, and rail historian Alvin F. Staufer died Oct. 30 in Medina. He was 88. Staufer is best known for his seminal works on the steam power of the New York Central System and Pennsylvania Railroad. Trains Editor David P. Morgan was so impressed with Pennsy Power, which Staufer co-authored […]
Loewy with a Pennsylvania Railroad S-1 class 6-4-4-6. Hagley Museum & Library A publiclity photo purporting to show the new ‘Broadway Limited’ includes K-4s No. 3768 and a solid train of lightweight cars. Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 No. 4905, designed by Loewy, at North Philadelphia. Krambles-Peterson Archive MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Internet giant Google has created […]
