Winter 2020

Less famous than their Lake Michigan cousins, railroad car ferries sailed Lakes Erie and Ontario for more than half a century.

A trip on the Southern’s Asheville Special becomes part of a family’s lore

Rails retreat from the lonely flatlands south of Sacramento

Donald W. Furler helped write the “rules” of action photography in the 1930s and ’40s, then tried color in the ’50s.

New York Central 4-8-2 westbound at Waterloo, Ind., 1949

A passion for trains as a college student turned into a brief railroad career

Rides on AT&SF’s two transcontinental routes opened up new vistas

The Chicago Division was small in mileage but immense in its impact on the C&NW