Winter 2015

Summer 1952 was the perfect time for steam and diesel variety on New York Central’s Hudson Division

See video clips from the Sunday River Productions archives of New York Central steam in action.

A prediction from a Santa Fe veteran gave a rookie coach attendant on Amtrak’s El Capitan in 1971 some pause

An early 1950s gathering of F units, E units, a motor car, and two 44-tonners

Encounters with demonstrators through the 1960s whetted our diesel interest

A heavy Friday evening storm made for a brighter Saturday

About the N&W 4-8-2s best known as ‘J Juniors’

Nova Scotia’s coal-hauling Sydney & Louisburg — the easternmost standard-gauge railroad in North America — was one of the continent’s final diesel conquests

See more photos from Jim Shaughnessy’s visit to the Sydney & Louisburg Railway.

There was a down-home quality about the branch to Beardstown, Illinois, a distant corner of a far-flung empire

In the waning days of SP steam, a young fireman with visions of mainline glory often had to settle for duty on lowly switch engines