Destination Valley Forge
Half a century ago, the railroads were key players in moving thousands of Boy Scouts to two National Jamborees at a hallowed Revolutionary War site [see additional photos and read a Texas Scout's account of the 1957 Jamboree]
By Dale W. Woodland
Growing Up with Elevated Freight
Youthful interest in the movement of carload freight over part of Chicago''s rapid-transit system grew into a career on the Chicago Transit Authority
By Lou Gerard
Ten-Wheelers You Could Count On
A retired engineer recalls that Missouri Pacific's former International & Great Northern class G's were long-lived, powerful, comfortable, and dependable
By Hugo Lackman
Classics Today: Cliffhangers in the Big Thicket
The Texas State Railroad, a timber-hauler turned tourist pike, has had a century of ups and downs, but it seems now to have a secure future
By J. Parker Lamb and Tom Kline
The Night the Capitol Limited Almost Froze Up
B&O's finest had a fire on a below-zero night in 1961, but according to the General Manager's rules of performance, everything that happened was a young assistant trainmaster's fault
By Harold Meeker
Great Photographers: John C. Illman, The Quiet Man Who Speaks with his Camera
Although he didn't begin rail photography until he was in his 20's, this Westerner has produced a wide-ranging body of high-quality work
By Dick Dorn
One Day at . . . Bolton, Vt.
Color views of two steam-powered freight trains meeting at a hamlet on the Central Vermont
By Mert Leet
Bird''s-Eye View: Rail Hotels West and East
Santa Fe's Havasu in Seligman, Ariz., and Chesapeake & Ohio's Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
Circling the West in Multi-Colored Wagons
A two-week Midwest-Pacific Coast swing revealed a lot about the infant Amtrak
By J. David Ingles
All Night on a 2-10-2
A young railfan wrote to Illinois Central for a photography permit, and received an engine-riding permit! [see film clips from the author's rides]
By R. R. "Dick" Wallin
Departments
True Color: Albermarle Sound's Little Brother
GE 70-tonners crossing the old Norfolk Southern Railway's Neuse River trestle
Fallen Flags Remembered: Alton Railroad
How an unwanted Midwestern carrier managed to survive
A Classic Year: 1976
Star-Spangled Railroading: Bicentennial locomotives, the American Freedom Train, Conrail is born, speed records in Canada, the first F40a€ s, and more
The Way It Was
Helping the Santa Fe Helper Crews at Lamanda Park, Calif. a€Ã