The Columbus Junction canine caper
On a hot summer night in the early 1960s, Rock Island E3 626 stands at Waterloo, Iowa, with train 190.…
Read moreOn a hot summer night in the early 1960s, Rock Island E3 626 stands at Waterloo, Iowa, with train 190.…
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Southern Pacific 2-10-2 3757 rests at Sparks, Nev., in 1948. J. F. Larison I went firing on the Southern Pacific’s…
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On a hot afternoon in August 1960, the year before the author began his Erie employment there, five Alco cab…
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Way back in 1940, I took a fling at railroading. After ditching art school, I went to work for the…
Read moreBruceton was a busy junction in west Tennessee on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. One engineer who worked…
Read moreThe year was 1966; I was 19 years old and starting my second summer working on the Great Lakes. This…
Read moreI hired out in 1944 with the Santa Fe as an agent/operator apprentice and in August was assigned to the…
Read moreDuring my career as an engineman on the Southern Pacific, I ran and fired locomotives carrying from 185 to 300…
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Before a 1960 line-relocation project, the two main tracks of the Santa Fe Railway’s transcontinental main line split at Supai,…
Read moreAll the high excitement, thrills and tensions of railway experience are not the exclusive province of the operating department employees.…
Read moreIn the small town of Goshen, Ind., where I grew up, one was always aware of the New York Central.…
Read moreI’m awakened by the sound of the phone ringing and his muffled voice saying, “It’s two-thirty. They probably want W-2…
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