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My Place
ICG Paducah rebuild 8289 leads a Memphis, Tennessee to McComb, Mississippi freight in February, 1976 as it splits the US&S block signals installed in the mid-1930s. Every Rail Enthusiast has their...
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The Drop
Bishop Tower (SS 63) Bridgeport, CT – Bob Hughes photo -July 1969 Back in 1970 we still had the sixteen hour law and many freight jobs out of New Haven, Connecticut would work 15:59 so they did not...
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Editor’s Notebook
Looking Back I thought it would be interesting to look back and see which articles from the past seven years have the most views. Of course, there are any number of factors that affect how many views...
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Rites of Passage
A seven-year-old, junkyard-bound Plymouth Valiant was revived to serve as the author’s temporary transportation to spend a weekend photographing trains, seen here as Vermont Railway SW-1500 No. 501...
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High Bridge
A hidden gem on the Durango Silverton From The High Bridge – September, 2013Engine 480 pulls a morning bound train across the high bridge to Silverton Colorado. My highlight on the Durango Silverton...
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Street Running
Pueblo, Colorado The Denver & New Orleans Railroad was incorporated in Colorado in 1881 to run between its namesake cities but it only got as far as Pueblo, Colorado. It was later bought by the...
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Woodland, the Name
A quiet afternoon at Williams, California, in 1992. ‘A railroad runs through it.’ “What brings you here?” I was far from home, and the waitress’s warm smile was very welcome. “Well, I liked the sound...
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The Pearl of Africa
In 1896 the British started building a meter-gauge railway from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean towards Uganda, “The Pearl of Africa”. Along the way they established Nairobi and realized that their colony...
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Highball Up the Mississippi Valley
Once upon a time, the New York Central called itself “The Water Level Route” due to its following the Hudson River to the Big Apple. In truth, many railroads could use the same slogan; after all,...
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If This Wire Could Talk
Inside Guilford Tower, and the tower back in the 1970s. Each year for thirty-five years, I go to Montana to fly fish for trout. Known as the Big Sky Country, it truly is the last best place for such...
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