Join Trains Magazine Editor Jim Wrinn at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer for the May 2017 unveiling of the restored Texas! The famous 4-4-0, which pursued the General in the Great Locomotive Chase, will be on display at the Atlanta History Center in late 2017. You’ll see the locomotive following its cosmetic restoration, […]
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Charlie Conway brings you real railroad operation like you’ve never seen it before when he captures Morristown & Erie Railway crews Taking Care of Business in New Jersey! In this first of two episodes, you’ll see a rare insider’s look at what goes into running a unique shortline operation. […]
On Sept. 26, 2013, Montana Rail Link’s eastbound Gas Local passes a westbound BNSF coal train in Plains, Mont., bound for Roberts Bank, British Columbia. Tom Danneman Q What was the reason BNSF sold off trackage to Montana Rail Link? As an observer, it appears most trains on the railroad are of BNSF origin. – […]
FULL SCREEN Chase Gunnoe The Ringling Bros. Blue unit circus train arrives in Watco’s Dickinson Yard on the Kanawha River Railroad. The train is headed for downtown Charleston, W.Va., for a series of sold out performances. May 2, 2017. FULL SCREEN Kevin Burkholder CSX No. 3333 and two other CSX locomotives lead the Ringling Bros. […]
IC 4035, E9A IC 4105, E8B IC 4017, E7A B&O 1239, baggage-lounge B&O Loch Lomond, 10 SEC – 1 DR – 2 CPT sleeper B&O Tuscawaras, 10 RMT – 6 BR sleeper UP Imperial Palm, 4 BR – 4 CPT – 2 DR sleeper UP Imperial Letter, 4 BR – 4 CPT – 2 DR […]
Join Trains Magazine and video contributor Kevin Gilliam for a look at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s 2017 opening weekend. You’ll see former Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630 and Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia high-nose GP38 No. 80 in service on passenger trains! […]
Join Trains and videographer Kevin Gilliam for a look at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit circus train on its trek to Charleston, W.Va. You’ll see the train traverse West Virginia coal country, and on the new Kanawha River Railroad. […]
What would it have been like to spend one day at a perfect train-watching spot in the 1950s and 1960s? This 30-page download takes you back in time, with contributors sharing their experiences from memorable trips across the United States. This free guide provides plenty of pictures, too, with classic railroad photos from a bygone […]
This special series offers an overview of intercity and passenger railroading in North America. Our free, 30-page PDF download includes the following features: Beech Grove to the Rescue An inside look at Amtrak’s rolling stock repair facility, where an injection of stimulus funding has been used to repair passenger cars and sidelined P40 locomotives. Taking […]
An E unit leads a train through Berwyn, Ill., on a lazy day in August 1963. Such scenes were part of daily life along the Burlington’s triple-track main west of Chicago. Larry Kostka It didn’t matter how often you rode the trains, or even if you did at all. Growing up in the postwar era […]
Ten hoppers coupled to the Big Boy consist in January 2014 were used for additional braking power. Steve Sweeney Q Why was there a string of hopper cars in the consist moving Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 from Pomona to West Colton, Calif., in January 2014? – David Tritenbach, Kerrville, Texas A Although Union […]
