An accidental beginning
Jul 15, 2013

An accidental beginning

SP 4229, the cab-forward on which author Anderson was firing as the second engine of a doubleheader when lead engine…

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Night ride to Valparaiso
Jun 17, 2013·Railfan Stories

Night ride to Valparaiso

As on the train artist buddies Gil Reid and Howard Fogg rode, an open-platform observation car brings up the rear…

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Policing the Olympian Hi
Jun 4, 2013

Policing the Olympian Hi

Models posed in the lounge of a Milwaukee Road Skytop sleeper-observation car appear to be better behaved than some of…

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Canned steam at “The Cash”
May 15, 2013·Railfan Stories

Canned steam at “The Cash”

National Cash Register’s 0-4-0F Dayton trundles through the big NCR plant at Dayton, Ohio. National Cash Register Co. I attended…

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It was a dark and stormy night
Apr 30, 2013·Railfan Stories

It was a dark and stormy night

Flashbulbs highlight the snowflakes swirling around B&O 4-8-2 709 and caboose C1406 at B&OCT’s 14th Street Tower in Chicago on…

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A new way to unload sand
Mar 15, 2013

A new way to unload sand

This story was related to me by those personally involved in a new but somewhat less-than-satisfactory method of unloading sand.…

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A South Bend tradition
Mar 5, 2013·Railfan Stories

A South Bend tradition

Two of the South Shore Line’s air-conditioned M.U. cars stand at the road’s downtown South Bend, Ind., depot on La…

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Steam in the atomic age
Feb 5, 2013·Railfan Stories

Steam in the atomic age

CV M-5-a 461, the same class of 2-8-0 entrusted with atomic loads, nears Amherst, Mass., with a Palmer-Brattleboro local in…

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