Last ride north from Xenia

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PRR passenger service from Xenia north to Springfield, Ohio, — protected by an old gas-electric motor car — ended on July 21, 1953.  Harry V. Noble Xenia, my hometown in southwestern Ohio, was on the Pennsylvania’s Pittsburgh-St. Louis main line 16 miles east of Dayton. Xenia was also the base of a branch line north […]

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Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 25 – Quarry tour along the CN main

Close-up view of a rock-carrying conveyor belt in a rail-served quarry.

Through special arrangements with Lannon Stone Products, Inc., a rail-served rock quarry along the Canadian National main line, host Drew Halverson and the MRVP video crew follow knowledgeable employees through the Sussex, Wisconsin, operation. In this industrial-sized adventure, you’ll enjoy seeing unique footage of rock blasting, crushing, processing, loading, and hauling, plus plenty of modeling […]

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Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 25 – Quarry tour along the CN main

Close-up view of a rock-carrying conveyor belt in a rail-served quarry.

Through special arrangements with Lannon Stone Products, Inc., a rail-served rock quarry along the Canadian National main line, host Drew Halverson and the MRVP video crew follow knowledgeable employees through the Sussex, Wisconsin, operation. In this industrial-sized adventure, you’ll enjoy seeing unique footage of rock blasting, crushing, processing, loading, and hauling, plus plenty of modeling […]

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Get well soon

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Southern SD45 3134 leaves a pall of smoke over the depot area at Salisbury, N.C., July 17, 1977. Mike Small Growing up in close proximity to a main line, I’ve always valued speed and power in railroading. We lived about a mile south of Jamestown, N.C., where Southern Railway’s Washington, D.C., to Atlanta, Ga., route […]

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Leviathan in steam

David Kloke tells Trains readers about his latest project to build a replica of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral car in the June 2015 issue of Trains. While we wait to see that project roll on rails, we can enjoy a video showing off Kloke’s major claim to fame: a complete, operational replica of an 1860s steam […]

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Leviathan in steam

David Kloke tells Trains readers about his latest project to build a replica of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral car in the June 2015 issue of Trains. While we wait to see that project roll on rails, we can enjoy a video showing off Kloke’s major claim to fame: a complete, operational replica of an 1860s steam […]

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CSX closes out the tower era in Fostoria NEWSWIRE

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CSX Transportation train R348, left, was the last train to pass under the control of F Tower in Fostoria, Ohio. R348 departed once train S264, right, cleared the plant. Brian Schmidt Toledo, Ohio-bound train Q253 passes CSX Transportation’s F Tower in Fostoria, Ohio, just before the tower closed for good on Monday morning. Brian Schmidt […]

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