Many paint schemes are on display on Canadian Pacific at Drake, N.D., in September 2010. Photo by Mark Jackson […]
Rolling heritage
Train Topic: Railfanning
Mixed train through the muskeg
Near Conklin, Alberta, NAR mixed train 77 ambles toward Fort McMurray on June 26, 1972, the second day of author Armstrong’s four-day adventure. James B. Armstrong At 5 o’clock every Sunday and Wednesday evening, mixed train No. 75 would trundle slowly out of Dunvegan Yards (Edmonton), headquarters and southern terminus of the Northern Alberta Railways, […]
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 […]
Remainder of J.J. Young Jr. photo collection to be available online NEWSWIRE
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The vast collection of photos taken by the late J.J. Young Jr. will soon be made available to the public. As a result of a Flickr page set up earlier this year showing Young’s images from the area in and around Binghamton, N.Y., Young’s widow Liz has agreed to allow access to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Streamliners at Spencer event, 2014
See this photo gallery of streamlined locomotives that dazzled crowds at the North Carolina Transportation Museum complex in Spencer, N.C., in Summer 2014. This is a modified version of the photo gallery that first appeared on Classic Trains‘ website. […]
Toledo Train Day
Locomotives and rail cars are lined up on display at the 2014 National Train Day exhibit in Toledo, Ohio, on May 3. Photo by Joe Kohnen […]
What kind of day did you have?
Bystanders inspect a sedan deluged with coke during a derailment of an L&N train in Chattanooga. C. K. Marsh Jr. One day in 1965, a friend and I were searching for the obscure terminal of the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railroad in the Alton Park section of Chattanooga. Coming up on a railroad crossing, we […]
MR Insider Exclusive: A visit to the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Neil Besougloff, Editor of Model Railroader magazine, recently traveled to Greeley, Colo., with a video camera in tow. Watch the stunning footage he captured of the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s massive HO scale layout. And don’t miss the bonus coverage of his side […]
A glimpse at today’s streetcars
FULL SCREEN Mike Bjork One of the benefits of streetcars is that they introduce mass transit on the city streets where people park their cars, drive to work, and walk. A perfect example of that is with Portland’s original streetcar line where a person is about to cross in front of a northbound streetcar on […]
