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Canadian National – Image Gallery

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Catching the Gulf Wind

The sight of an approaching Seaboard E7 signaled adventure: a boy’s first train ride. Wiley M. Bryan I don’t know how my fascination for trains began, but ever since I could remember, I had been drawn to their mystique. I like tracks, switches, sidings, and depots. I like everything associated with trains. So, in November […]

Milwaukee Road boxcab electrics turn 100 this month NEWSWIRE

Milwaukee Road No. 10200 on static display at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minn. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. — The legendary Milwaukee Road Pacific Extension saw its last trains in 1980, and the end of its electrification in 1974. But the first electric locomotives used on the “Electric Way Through the Mountains” as […]

NYC Steam Along the Hudson River

Watch video clips of Niagaras, Hudsons, and Pacifics in the Hudson River Valley from the Sunday River Productions DVD Program Hudsons along the Hudson. […]

NYC Steam Along the Hudson River

Watch video clips of Niagaras, Hudsons, and Pacifics in the Hudson River Valley from the Sunday River Productions DVD Program Hudsons along the Hudson. […]

Last CNW units in original paint stored at Illinois museum NEWSWIRE

Union Pacific’s former Chicago & North Western locomotives Nos. 8646 and 8701 lead a manifest train into Milwaukee. The units are now in storage at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Ill. Chris Guss UNION, Ill. — As Union Pacific continues to store excess locomotives this fall due to depressed business levels, two of the […]

Journeys on World War II troop trains

A Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 leads a troop train east through California in 1946. George M. Speir In early May 1945, I boarded a troop train at Fort Knox, Ky., and headed west on the Louisville & Nashville, destination unknown. The war in Europe had just ended and my fellow 18-year-old replacement tank crewmen had been […]

Stock cars and reefers on the Santa Fe

A long string of stock cars is tucked in behind Santa Fe 2-8-2 No. 4085 on train 44, the Perishable Express, near Henrietta, Mo., in 1946. Behind the stock cars are 33 refrigerator cars. Robert R. Malinoski photo […]