The Ann Arbor’s tracks, foreground, are on the west side of the tower. Sol Tucker TOLEDO, Ohio – Operator Larry Bohland, the most senior employee on the railroad, had 40 years and one week on the job when Hallett Tower in Toledo closed earlier this week. He survived the dark days of the bankrupt Ann […]
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia railroad club that sponsored the annual New River Train blames its financial woes on the cancellation of its annual October excursions on Amtrak, but an analysis of financial reporting shows the club may have been in trouble long before Amtrak began increasing its chartered private train rates in 2018. […]
“Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad,” by Carleton E. Watkins, from the J. Paul Getty Museum, is part of the “After Promontory” exhibition. Courtesy Center for Railroad Photography & Artt The Center for Railroad Photography & Art’s traveling exhibition, “After Promontory: 150 Years of Transcontinentail Railroading,” will open at two sites this weekend. Today, March 29, […]
UP train 339, the mixed from Twin Falls, Idaho, nears its destination of Wells, Nev., in fall 1943. Is Uncle Jim the conductor today? W. B. Wolverton There’s not much there anymore, and few people know that Minidoka, Idaho, was once a busy railroad point. It was also my youthful idea of heaven. That’s where […]
A fast freight rides a two-railroad speedway in May 1971. Jerry A. Pinkepank 1 Cotton Belt freight. A St. Louis Southwestern Railway (SSW, common nickname Cotton Belt) freight rolls north on Missouri Pacific tracks May 8, 1971, at Gorham, Ill., on the 123.7 miles of MoPac trackage rights Cotton Belt used to reach the Illinois […]
DTA host Drew Halverson, along with pals Kent Johnson and Charlie Conway, launch their summer-long mission to explore the hottest railroad action in the state of Missouri. But first, they have get to the Gateway to the West. Make the trip with the guys, as they chase and race trains (and rain) along a wandering […]
Charlie Conway continues his UK travels with unprecedented access aboard The Caledonian Sleeper. Follow Chas to the cab, as he rides along with the drivers responsible for providing slumbering passengers with a safe and sublime journey into the Scottish Highlands. […]
DTA host Drew Halverson, along with pals Kent Johnson and Charlie Conway, launch their summer-long mission to explore the hottest railroad action in the state of Missouri. But first, they have get to the Gateway to the West. Make the trip with the guys, as they chase and race trains (and rain) along a wandering […]
Charlie Conway continues his UK travels with unprecedented access aboard The Caledonian Sleeper. Follow Chas to the cab, as he rides along with the drivers responsible for providing slumbering passengers with a safe and sublime journey into the Scottish Highlands. […]
A close-up look at Union Pacific ES44AC No. 7906 leading a westbound intermodal train at “Curvo,” a little-known engineering hotspot on the route of the first Transcontinental Railroad. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn Curvo, Utah, is a location on the route of the first Transcontinental Railroad that may be unique in American railroading. A Transcontinental Railroad spot […]
WOODSTOCK, N.H. — Rail photographer and historian, Alan Thomas, 85, of Woodstock, N.H., passed away Feb. 3, 2019. Not only was Alan a talented rail photographer, he was generous about allowing others to use his work, said Trains author Chuck Bohi. “I met Alan while chasing a B&M train at Bath, N.H., and benefited from […]
Join Trains Digital Editor Steve Sweeney for a Swiss narrow gauge mountain railroad adventure on the Albula Pass. Watch as scheduled passenger and freight trains operate on the Rhaetian Railway’s extensive meter gauge line over the Alps between Preda and Bergun, Switzerland. Information on how to visit Switzerland with Trains in 2019 is available online. […]
