B&O Museum puts spotlight back on American Freedom Train 1
Has any class of homebuilt, remanufactured mainline steam locomotive ever performed as brilliantly as the Reading T-1 4-8-4? Given the…
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Has any class of homebuilt, remanufactured mainline steam locomotive ever performed as brilliantly as the Reading T-1 4-8-4? Given the…
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The trend toward professional archival preservation of the work of major railroad photographers continues, lately with the news that the…
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Of the many first-rate photographers who became fascinated by postwar railroading, one of the best was James La Vake. An…
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It was my bittersweet duty last week to write an obituary for illustrator Bob Wegner, one of the all-time greats…
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When mourners gather Thursday for services at the Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Auburn, Calif., it will mark…
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We all have “near misses” in our lives, and one of the biggest for me was the steam program of…
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I haven’t counted every last owner one time or another of Florida East Coast 4-6-2 No. 148, but it must…
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When I fell into the mileage hobby more than 35 years ago, I was late to the game but ambitious…
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The steam community is in a happy state of shock this week with the news that New York Central 3001,…
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Early last spring, it was time to plan a summer vacation and get to some unfinished business. Alison and I…
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The photo is at once ordinary and extraordinary. Ordinary because the photographer had to grab it on the fly, shooting…
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A lot of diligent photographers were scattered along the old Wabash main line in Indiana and Illinois this past weekend…
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