Winter 2021

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In this Issue

Two Photographers You Should Know

Little known outside New England, George Corey and Stanwood Bolton were among the best late steam-era lensmen

Man With a Pass

In the mid-1960s, a New York Central employee enjoyed free travel for business and pleasure on his home road and others

Life of a Signal Man

From signal helper to signal maintainer on the Erie Lackawanna

Buffalo’s Blizzard of ’77

The storm that brought a city’s railroads to a standstill

What’s in a Photograph?

Santa Fe at Barstow, Calif., in October 1975

The Last Catch

In the final summer before Amtrak, Burlington Northern’s North Coast Limited still
carried a Railway Post Office that picked up mail on the fly

Winter in Wisconsin

Master railroad photographer John Gruber applied a journalist’s eye to his avocation

Best of Everything

Winding down on the North Western, an interlude in Vermont, and success on Indiana short lines

Welcome  Winter wonderlands, and a crew change

Head End  A potpourri railroad history, then and now

Fast Mail  Letters from readers on our Fall 2021 issue

True Color  Sunrise at South Amboy

Mileposts  Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe

The Way It Was  Tales from railfans and railroaders

Car Stop  Postscript in Milwaukee

Bumping Post  Reading’s great Philly trainshed