Trains Magazine Assistant Editor Brian Schmidt takes you to Stevens Point, Wis., for a day of Canadian National freight action in October 2016. You’ll learn the best places in town to watch trains, and see unique motive power from CN, Illinois Central, and Wisconsin Central. Learn more about CN’s Chicago to Winnipeg corridor in the […]
Trains video contributor Kevin Gilliam takes us on a steam-and-smoke-filled look into one of North Carolina’s tourist gems: The Tweetsie Railroad. See what this narrow gauge railroad has to offer in the Blue Ridge Mountains, only from Trains! […]
Trains video contributor Kevin Gilliam takes us on a steam-and-smoke-filled look into one of North Carolina’s tourist gems: The Tweetsie Railroad. See what this narrow gauge railroad has to offer in the Blue Ridge Mountains, only from Trains! […]
Drew Halverson flips the script when he heads to the Pacific Northwest for a little R&R. Of course, Charlie Conway hosts Drew around Northern Puget Sound, Seattle, Wash., and then a quick stop to catch the railroad action at BNSF’s Balmer Yard. […]
Drew Halverson flips the script when he heads to the Pacific Northwest for a little R&R. Of course, Charlie Conway hosts Drew around Northern Puget Sound, Seattle, Wash., and then a quick stop to catch the railroad action at BNSF’s Balmer Yard. […]
Charlie Conway and Tom Danneman launch into their exploration of the Columbia River Gorge. In addition to capturing images of spectacular scenery and engineering, the two find plenty of Union Pacific and BNSF freight trains snaking along the curvaceous riverfront main line. […]
Charlie Conway and Tom Danneman launch into their exploration of the Columbia River Gorge. In addition to capturing images of spectacular scenery and engineering, the two find plenty of Union Pacific and BNSF freight trains snaking along the curvaceous riverfront main line. […]
Globetrotter Charlie Conway is back in the Pacific Northwest chasing trains with Tom Danneman, the Art Director for Model Railroader and Trains magazines. For this Postcard to pal Drew, the duo opted for a slow and steady trackside “pursuit” near Toledo, Ore., deep into rainy, coastal mountain terrain. […]
Globetrotter Charlie Conway is back in the Pacific Northwest chasing trains with Tom Danneman, the Art Director for Model Railroader and Trains magazines. For this Postcard to pal Drew, the duo opted for a slow and steady trackside “pursuit” near Toledo, Ore., deep into rainy, coastal mountain terrain. […]
An artist has transformed a former Milwaukee Road steam locomotive tender and ex-snow plow into a mural in Montevideo, Minn. Montevideo Arts Project MONTEVIDEO, Minn. — A one-time locomotive tender and snow plow officially welcomes its news role as public art this week outside the former Milwaukee Road station in Montevideo, Minn. The Montevideo Arts […]
BANGKOK, Thailand — The body of Charles E. Ditlefsen, whose CEDCo Publishing Co. calendars featured a variety of railroad subjects, was found dismembered in a freezer in Thailand. He disappeared in 2008. Ditlefsen, who was born in Hungary, was a transportation planner in Marin County, Calif. News reports from Thailand say Ditlefsen may have been […]
Watch freight trains climb 4 percent grades in western North Carolina on Watco’s Blue Ridge Southern! Be sure to check out our feature story on the railroad, coming in the December 2016 issue of Trains Magazine! […]
