Charlie’s Trackside Postcards: A Day at the Office

View of a derailment from an office building.

Just another day at his downtown Seattle office for Charlie Conway – until he discovered that a cut of empty hoppers had derailed on the busy BNSF main line routing in front of the building! Chas grabbed his camera and captured the Hulcher Services crew working to get trains rolling again. […]

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Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 40 Union Pacific Sunset Route

Drew Halverson and his crew continue making the most of their trek into the Arizona desert. This time the guys scope out sites along Union Pacific’s transcontinental main line until the sweltering heat becomes unbearable. But even then, the intense action continues at the border town of Nogales, Arizona, in downtown Tucson, Ariz., and along […]

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Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 40 Union Pacific Sunset Route

Drew Halverson and his crew continue making the most of their trek into the Arizona desert. This time the guys scope out sites along Union Pacific’s transcontinental main line until the sweltering heat becomes unbearable. But even then, the intense action continues at the border town of Nogales, Arizona, in downtown Tucson, Ariz., and along […]

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John Gruber, rail photographer extraordinaire, dies at 82 NEWSWIRE

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John Gruber MADISON, Wis. — In the world of railroad photography, few practitioners have had an impact as profound as that of John Gruber. He arrived in the 1960s with a daring new approach to photographing the railroad scene, then went on to found the leading organization devoted to preserving and promoting the art form. […]

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Discovery’s ‘Mighty Trains’ returns for second season NEWSWIRE

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India’s Maharajas’ Express is featured on Mighty Trains. Discovery: Mighty Trains TORONTO, Ontario – This fall, Discovery invites viewers to climb aboard powerful locomotives barreling across awe-inspiring landscapes, as the network’s original Canadian series “Mighty Trains” returns with an all-new season, airing at 7 p.m. Sundays Eastern Time starting Oct. 14 on Discovery and DiscoveryGO […]

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A trip on the Erie

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Two Erie trains, a doodlebug with a Stillwell coach and a Pacific with four Stillwells, climb the steel viaduct out of Jersey City before entering the “Bergen Arches.” Erie Railroad During the 1930s as I was growing up, my father worked for the Erie Railroad as a machinist. One of the perks of his railroad […]

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O. Winston Link exhibit features rare images NEWSWIRE

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“Southern Pacific Local Freight crosses Intracoastal Waterway in Houma, Louisiana, 1951,” from the “Unseen Link” exhibit. Courtesy O. Winston Link Museum ROANOKE, Va. — The O. Winston Link Museum is now featuring an exhibit of rarely seen images by the famed rail photographer. “Unseen Link,” which opened on Sept. 14 and runs through Nov. 6, […]

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Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4004 restoration

Big Boy 4004 parties like it’s 1941 again! Join us at Cheyenne’s Holliday Park to talk to the restoration crew responsible for bringing Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4004 back to its 1941 appearance in 2018. The giant locomotive has been on display for almost 60 years and is once more looking like its original appearance. […]

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Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4017 at the National Railroad Museum

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Of the eight Big Boy locomotives preserved, only two are indoors. No. 4017 is one of the major artifacts on display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wis. Join Editor Jim Wrinn and museum Education Director Bob Lettenberger on a tour of this giant of steam. […]

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Wild Wyoming

Freight train snaking along the bottom of a rocky canyon just above a river.

Join Trains Art Director Tom Danneman for a video adventure tracking down elusive BNSF Railway motive power in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. The spectacular and out-of the-way region is the scenic backdrop for unique BNSF locomotives such as Geeps, SD40-2s, and SD60Ms. A side trip to the Power River Basin and few “bonus” trains round […]

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