Glory Days: One Fine Day in Franklin Canyon
A doubleheader on a reefer block approaches Santa Fe's longest tunnel on the last lap to the Coast.
By By Robert S. McGonigal
Iowa Getaway
A 1965 college-semester-break trip to find a Chicago Great Western Alco resulted in much, much more.
By By J. David Ingles
Big Boys West from Cheyenne
Climb aboard a Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 leading a doubleheader up Sherman Hill in 1952.
By Photo essay by Henry R. Griffiths Jr.
My Summer in the Gold Cage
A New York Central job in Grand Central Terminal's information booth led to a summer romance and a 4-8-4 cab ride.
By By Theodore C. Doege
Great Photographers: David W. Salter, a Color Pioneer in the South
He has made railroad photos coast-to-coast, but his Georgia time in the 1960a€ s was most productive.
By John Gruber
Bad Coal
When inferior fuel laid low a mighty Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 on the run from Lima to Bellevue, Ohio.
By By Ben F. Anthony
Storming Blackwater Canyon
In 1952, seven Western Maryland 2-8-0's wrestle a 78-car train up a remote 3 percent grade.
By Photos by Edward Theisinger
The Victimized Hudson
Why did the running gear of Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 102 fly apart at over 90 mph?
By By Ed King and Jim Scribbins; painting by Ted Rose
How Fast Could They Go?
Milwaukee Road's Atlantics and Hudsons routinely ran at 100 mph-and sometimes much faster.
By By Ed King and Jim Scribbins; painting by Ted Rose
Five on Film
Ever capture five trains moving on one frame of film? In 1969, it happened to a lucky teenager in Elizabeth, N.J.
By By Paul Carpenito
Ghosts in the Piney Woods
Visits to east Texas lumber road Moscow, Camden & San Augustine were a step back in time.
By By Glen Brewer
Departments
Editor's Page
Magnificent Obsession
Fallen Flags Remembered
New York, New Haven & Hartford
A Classic Year
1969: Weird, wonderful, and one-of-a-kind trains
The Way It Was
Susquehanna Surprise, by Robert Dykstra a€Ã