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Union Pacific vs. the Mudslide
How a big railroad tackled a massive Oregon mudslide that took out its main line not once but twice
By Martin E. Hansen
Online Bonus:
See an animation of the UP's Frazier mudslide.Subscribers can enjoy a free story on the Southern Pacific in the Cascades.
Boarders, But Never Bored
I watched the world of railroading evolve from the porch of my grandparents' rooming house on the Louisville & NashvilleSubscribers can enjoy free stories on the Louisville & Nashville in eastern Kentucky.
By Ron Flanary
Busiest Station in the World
Shinjuku Station keeps 3.5 million people a day moving through Tokyo. And you thought your commute was hectic!
By Scott Lothes
Online Bonus: Railfanning Tokyo and more
The best spots to watch the action in one of the world's great rail centersSubscribers can enjoy free stories on the Japanese railroads.
Map of the Month: Buffalo, N.Y., in 1942
Trains were drawn to Buffalo like iron filings to magnets. Here is the city at its most tangled, when 11 trunkline railroads and three short lines moved thousands of cars a day
By Bill Metzger
Dissecting a Railfan
Was 1920s silent film star Fatty Arbuckle a railfan? You decide
By David Lustig
Railroad Reading
Missed by a gnat's eyelash: Experience a near collision through the eyes of a railroad deputy special agent on a ride-along in Texas
By Tom Kline
Gallery
Santa Fe's Barstow Yard, Canadian Pacific in the Rockies, the circus train crossing the Wabash River, Alcos on the Piedmont & Northern, two B39-8s bracket three B30-7s in Worcester, Mass.
By Assorted photographers
News
News & Photos
NS reaches Boston via deal with Pan Am Railway
Don Phillips
Dan Ranger
Technology
Tie gang equipment, and what each piece does
Locomotive
Railroads seek to double inspection intervals
Passenger
GrandLuxe targets Mexico's Copper Canyon
City Rail
When Class I railroads, transsits share corridors
Departments
From the Editor
Epic drama: railroads vs. nature
Ask Trains
Preservation
A family friendly railroad museum
Fantrip
Railfan clubs face the digital age
How a big railroad tackled a massive Oregon mudslide that took out its main line not once but twice
By Martin E. Hansen
Online Bonus:
See an animation of the UP's Frazier mudslide.Subscribers can enjoy a free story on the Southern Pacific in the Cascades.
Boarders, But Never Bored
I watched the world of railroading evolve from the porch of my grandparents' rooming house on the Louisville & NashvilleSubscribers can enjoy free stories on the Louisville & Nashville in eastern Kentucky.
By Ron Flanary
Busiest Station in the World
Shinjuku Station keeps 3.5 million people a day moving through Tokyo. And you thought your commute was hectic!
By Scott Lothes
Online Bonus: Railfanning Tokyo and more
The best spots to watch the action in one of the world's great rail centersSubscribers can enjoy free stories on the Japanese railroads.
Map of the Month: Buffalo, N.Y., in 1942
Trains were drawn to Buffalo like iron filings to magnets. Here is the city at its most tangled, when 11 trunkline railroads and three short lines moved thousands of cars a day
By Bill Metzger
Dissecting a Railfan
Was 1920s silent film star Fatty Arbuckle a railfan? You decide
By David Lustig
Railroad Reading
Missed by a gnat's eyelash: Experience a near collision through the eyes of a railroad deputy special agent on a ride-along in Texas
By Tom Kline
Gallery
Santa Fe's Barstow Yard, Canadian Pacific in the Rockies, the circus train crossing the Wabash River, Alcos on the Piedmont & Northern, two B39-8s bracket three B30-7s in Worcester, Mass.
By Assorted photographers
News
News & Photos
NS reaches Boston via deal with Pan Am Railway
Don Phillips
Dan Ranger
Technology
Tie gang equipment, and what each piece does
Locomotive
Railroads seek to double inspection intervals
Passenger
GrandLuxe targets Mexico's Copper Canyon
City Rail
When Class I railroads, transsits share corridors
Departments
From the Editor
Epic drama: railroads vs. nature
Ask Trains
Preservation
A family friendly railroad museum
Fantrip
Railfan clubs face the digital age
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