Santa Fe’s Madame Queen deserves some love
Family road trips usually involve self-inflicted detours to see park steam engines, “stuffed and mounted” for the sake of…
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When we drove off Illinois Route 92 onto former Rock Island property recently at Silvis, I was singularly focused on…
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Any time the UPS truck drops a new railroad book on my porch, it’s a good day. But “good”…
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The railroad industry has created more than its share of publicity photographs over the past 150 years. Here, standing…
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Like trilobites and brachiopods, the paper carcasses of 19th-century railroads seem forever locked away in the sediments of corporate archives…
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On a day when snow is flying back home in Milwaukee, I’m 900 miles away, luxuriating in 70-degree temperatures…
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Presumably, David P. Morgan never met engineer Jeff Schmid. The late editor of Trains magazine died in 1990, just as…
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If you’re driving on Main Street through Hardeeville, S.C., it’s easy to miss the little steam locomotive tucked away in…
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Of all the railroads that tried various gambits to get out of the passenger business in the 1960s, perhaps…
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Some photographs grab your imagination and won’t let go. Case in point: this simple but quietly affecting portrait…
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A few weeks ago, I made an embarrassing blunder in the pages of Classic Trains. In a brief, bylined…
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My first railroad book has stuck with me ever since my parents gave it to me when I was 9.…
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