Baldwin DT-6-6-2000: Remembering a dinosaur
A friend asked me recently what was the first locomotive I clearly remember. The answer might be surprising: it was…
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The Nevada Northern Railway might be the most remote railroad attraction in the Lower 48, and it’s also one of…
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Of all the mainline steam locomotives running these days — and there is an uncanny amount of them — I…
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If you’re reading this, you’re undoubtedly aware of what’s been going on with Kalmbach Media, and how it has sold…
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Walking out the 15th Street side entrance to Detroit’s Michigan Central Station last Friday morning, I found myself channeling the…
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Some careers are more than just a way to make a living. Sometimes they represent history itself. The trick is…
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With sunny skies and warm temperatures, there was only thing to do around Milwaukee this past Monday: chase (as best…
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Like some railfan contemporaries, in recent weeks I’ve been going through decades of railroad stuff, seeing what I can get…
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Rumors of the death of railroad fiction are greatly exaggerated. The veteran railroad journalist Fred Frailey made that clear a…
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If there’s one thing you could never accuse the late Jerry Joe Jacobson of, it was thinking small. At every…
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Is railroad preservation in ascendance, marked by a succession of triumphs in recent years? Or are we whistling past the…
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I’ve never been in the market for a private railroad car — editors and writers rarely ascend to that rarified…
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