Green Bay to Chicago Death March
Many of us didn’t want to believe that the steam era was drawing to a close — that diesels, those…
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Many of us didn’t want to believe that the steam era was drawing to a close — that diesels, those…
Read moreAt age 4, I looked forward to 2 p.m. That was the hour my grandfather would return to our house…
Read moreKAAABOOM! I woke in my roomette with a start as the car lurched forward a couple of feet. Caaaa-lank, clank,…
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It goes without saying that the smooth handling of Seaboard Coast Line’s Florida streamliners was a matter of personal pride…
Read moreAt 1:45 p.m. on a sunny spring afternoon in 1955, the pace of activity at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy…
Read moreJohn was one of the many engineers I fired for on passenger trains on the Southern Pacific between Sparks and…
Read moreWe have nothing special planned for June 6, 1957 — the 13th anniversary of the D-Day invasion — but it…
Read moreIn the winter of 1943, I was assigned to the firemen’s extra board at Des Moines Iowa, on the Rock…
Read moreIn the 1940’s, a rookie Southern Pacific locomotive fireman was always glad to see on the board that he had…
Read moreThe silver bunk car marked “D&RGW” rests on the stockyard spur next to Cisco siding, windows open to the night…
Read moreMy father, Richard Henderson, was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a shop clerk in the motive-power department at Toledo,…
Read moreOn the Norfolk & Western, when you qualified for passenger service as a fireman or engineer, the Road Forman of…
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