Drew Halverson and Tom Danneman take to the road to do some serious railfanning in Montana, and they bring you along for some great scenery and impressive trains. Drew and Tom also provide an assortment of great modeling tips. […]
Empire Builder Darin D. Larabee GRAND FORKS, N.D. – A passenger on Amtrak’s Empire Builder was arrested April 3 for carrying $44,000 worth of high-quality marijuana while the train was stopped in Grand Forks, the Grand Forks Herald reports. According to Grand Forks County Sheriff Bob Rost, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol informed his […]
McCloud River 2-8-2 No. 18 pulls a fictitious circus train past a movie set for the film “Water for Elephants” at Piru, Calif., along the Fillmore & Western Railway in May 2010. David Lustig Remember that train scene you saw last night on television, or last weekend at the movie theater? There’s a good chance […]
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CHICAGO – Metra coaches may start looking a lot better now that the Chicago commuter railroad is hiring on 31 additional cleaning staff. The Daily Herald reports that the added positions are a direct result of recent fare increases on 10-ride passes. “As we indicated when we did the 10-ride increase or fare adjustment — […]
Drew Halverson and Ben Lake are back on the road again, this time to downtown Milwaukee. In this video they catch loads of trains on the Canadian Pacific, including a Milwaukee Road bandit! […]
Drew’s back in his second installment. This time Drew chases some trains on the Canadian National, and he pays a visit to the Chicago & North Western’s former Bug Line. […]
Drew Halverson is a graphic designer for Model Railroader and Trains magazines, and he is also an excellent railroad photographer. On Drew’s Trackside Adventures, associate editor Ben Lake follows Drew to some of his favorite train watching spots to see some great railroading action. Along the way, Drew shares tips for being a good railfan, […]
FULL SCREEN Édouard Baldus/J. Paul Getty Museum Toulon Station, c. 1861. Édouard Baldus, who trained as a painter and worked as a lithographer, adopted compositional conventions of painting, such as centered motifs and balanced space surrounding the center, to his railroad photographs. FULL SCREEN Édouard Baldus/St. Louis Art Museum Approach to the Mountain Pass at […]
MINOT, N.D. – With extreme winter weather in North Dakota over the last two days closing roads and making for difficult travel conditions, BNSF Railway has resorted to moving crews using “snow coaches” – two unit light engine moves. The locomotives take the place of crew vans that normally shuttle crews to different locations. With no […]
Kristian Thompson SANTA FE, N.M. – The future for short line and tourist railroad Santa Fe Southern Railway appears bleak. The railroad’s General Manager Karl Ziebarth says the short line suspended operations on Oct. 17, 2012. The 18-mile line provides passenger and freight service between Santa Fe and a BNSF connection at Lamy, N.M. Ziebarth […]
