Great train, great scenery: NP’s North Coast Limited rolls west along the Clark Fork River in Montana. Classic Trains coll. My 1947 journey on Northern Pacific’s North Coast Limited is a treasured memory. I had come to love good trains through numerous trips between Washington, D.C., and my childhood home in Florida. My first ride […]
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 […]
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, […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Part of Jim’s career included a stint in real railroading, which provided him opportunities to get some great photos and stories. In this episode of History According to Hediger video, Jim rides along on the DT&I’s Delta Turn. Related Topics: railfan […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page History According to Hediger is a video series of remaniscence of the good old days of Model Railroader magazine. Senior editor Jim Hediger tells the story of the Hiawatha good will tour, marking Model Railroader’s 50th anniversary. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this video epsiode of History According to Hediger, Jim shows a few of the custom O scale freight cars featuring MR staff layouts. The cars were made for display at events in the 1970s. Related Topics: o scale […]
This story was related to me by those personally involved in a new but somewhat less-than-satisfactory method of unloading sand. The time was in the middle of the Great Depression. The locale was the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the “U.P.” The two unloaders were the sons of a local Methodist preacher, long in spirit and […]
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 […]
Two of the South Shore Line’s air-conditioned M.U. cars stand at the road’s downtown South Bend, Ind., depot on La Salle Street in 1967. H. G. Goerke; J. David Ingles coll. It was about 14 years before this evocative photo was snapped by my late train-chasing buddy Hank Goerke that I first stepped off a […]
Northern Pacific’s North Coast Limited clatters over the slip switches outside Chicago Union Station at the end of its 2,319-mile run from Seattle in May 1958. The Pennsylvania’s coach yard in the background hosts a variety of stored cars. R. P. Olmsted photo […]
