Trains Presents: Winter at the Iron Triangle

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Visit Fostoria, Ohio’s famous train-watching Iron Triangle in winter! See CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern freights and now-historic Triple Crown RoadRailer trains. Bought to you by Trains Magazine! See more trains around the city with Trains‘ Fostoria photo gallery! You can also follow along Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District with our three-part video series, also part […]

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Classic Chicago freight trains

FULL SCREEN John Bjorklund, collection of Center for Railroad Photography and Art The Chicago & North Western switches newsprint cars in downtown Chicago in September 1981. FULL SCREEN John Bjorklund, collection of Center for Railroad Photography and Art The Chicago & North Western switches newsprint cars in downtown Chicago in September 1981. FULL SCREEN John […]

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Trains Presents: Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District, Vol. 3

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Visit Norfolk Southern’s fabulous Fostoria District, connecting Fort Wayne, Ind., and Bellevue, Ohio! In Volume 3, you’ll see fast freights, including the now-historic Triple Crown RoadRailer trains, bounce over the often overlooked diamond at Maple Grove, Ohio! Watch more: Trains Presents: Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District, Vol. 1 Trains Presents: Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District, Vol. 2 […]

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Burlington ‘Zephyr’ record

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The Burlington ‘Zephyr’ as seen in Aurora, Ill., on May 26, 1934. Its nonstop run may have included slow spots. CB&Q Q In 1934, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy ran the Zephyr from Denver to Chicago nonstop. How did they do this without changing crews? Did they have crews on-board for each subdivision and change […]

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Whose cab ride is this?

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Erie RS2 904 clatters into the Lackawanna’s Hoboken Terminal with a Main Line local in 1956. Richard H. Young Youth is wasted on young people, so the saying goes. Kids don’t have the … well … maturity to know what’s special in their world. Watch the crowds at Disneyland. It’s the adults who are agog […]

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