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