Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 No. 2816 is seen on the Brooks Subdivision at milepost 139 near Strangmuir, Alberta, in June 2010 on a test run following a 20-month rebuild. Photo by Bill Hooper […]
Pride of the fleet
Section: Railroads
Kings Mountain
Southbound Norfolk Southern train No. 890 passes Kings Mountain, Ky., on March 21, 2014. Photo by Jeff Wagoner […]
Veterans’ display
Specially painted Amtrak P42 No. 42 hustles the westbound Pennsylvanian with six Amfleet through Landisville, Pa., on Sept. 30, 2013. Photo by Mark W. Hoffman […]
Kindnesses on the Omaha Road
Omaha Road 4-6-2 No. 500 departs Minneapolis with a train for Superior, Wis., in August 1950. Bob Borcherding At nearly 70 years of age, I am still enthralled at the passage of trains. Today’s trains—often featuring high-horsepower diesel locomotives, radio-controlled helpers, rotary-dump coal cars by the unit-trainload, and containers carrying products from halfway around the […]
Restoring Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309
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New England short line
Providence & Worcester train NR-3, a weekday turn between Plainfield, Conn., and Worcester, Mass., is northbound at Wauregan, Conn., on March 20, 2014. The train has B39-8s Nos. 3906 and 3905 for power. Photo by Gerald Aubin […]
Whizzer
The Wisconsin & Southern, affectionately known as the “Whizzer” to local railfans, whizzes through Waukesha, Wis., on June 2, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Twin Cities’ passenger trains through the years
FULL SCREEN St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, Minnesota Historical Society Collection Burlington’s Zephyr‘s gather at St. Paul Union Depot on Sept. 29, 1948. FULL SCREEN Ronald Lundstrom Freshly painted SD45s Nos. 407 and 412 power a Great Northern director’s special at St. Paul Union Depot in the mid 1960s. FULL SCREEN Byron D. Olsen The Milwaukee […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 16 – Mojave & Cajon Pass
Prior to chasing the Union Pacific Big Boy no. 4014 steam locomotive to Las Vegas, host Drew Halverson spent time in the sweltering Mojave Desert heat trying to keep up with some of the hottest BNSF and UP freight trains in action. Come along as Drew captures all sorts of beautiful arid scenery and hardworking […]
Outsider
A Herzog contract work train on the BNSF Railway at Winslow, Ariz., on July 5, 2013. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
Canadian Pacific in 1974
You squint through the train window to read the signs on parallel highway 148. They’re in French and English. It dawns on you that your ride in a Budd Rail Diesel Car from Ottawa to Montreal is about the most inauspicious way to begin a trip around the world. But no matter. It’s February 1974, […]
Rollin’
New crude oil tank cars roll west on Canadian Pacific rails through Duplainville, Wis., on Jan. 12, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
