Glory Days: Main Line, Branch Line
Two aspects of railroading - doodlebug and through train - meet at a Lehigh Valley junction.
By By Robert S. McGonigal
Steam's Last Stand on the Colorado & Southern
An all-color study of the unique circumstances that forced Burlington's High Plains subsidiary to keep the fires lit.
By By Hol Wagner
Fireman (Almost) for a Week (Almost)
A Wabash career that wasn't to be.
By By Richard R. Wallin
Cooking on the Southern Pacific
For a Southern Pacific dining car cook in the late 1920s, life was long hours, hard work, and the adventure of cross-country travel. A rare look at a seldom-covered aspect of railroad life in a long-gone era.
By By Thomas C. Fleming with Max Millard
One Day at . . . Machias, N.Y.
Action at an obscure B&O-PRR junction on a July 1951 afternoon.
By Photos by Mert Leet
Great Photographers: David Plowden: Master of the 11th Hour
Acclaimed in fine-art circles for his photography, this giant of black and white captured the disappearing aspects of American life.
By By John Gruber
Carolina Circle
Ride along with Senior Editor Dave Ingles on a 1966 train trip from Knoxville, Tenn., to Raleigh, N.C., and back.
By By J. David Ingles
Sidewalk Railroading
Some boys played cowboys and Indians; we ran the North Shore Line.
By By Steven Duff
Photo Section
NYC third-rail action, cab-unit diesels of four builders, C&NW at Chicago in 1941.
Owsley and the 1601
Fiction from 1919: The strong bond between a man and his engine.
By By Frank Packard
Departments
Editor's Page
Moments in Time
True Color
A PRR K4 hell-bent for Bay Head
Fallen Flags Remembered
1929: Prosperity before Black Friday
A Classic Year
The Way It Was
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