Elroy-Sparta State Trail: Biking Along the Route of the ‘400’
The first rail-to-trail conversion in the U.S., the Elroy-Sparta State Trail, gives riders an opportunity to traverse three tunnels. …
Read moreThe first rail-to-trail conversion in the U.S., the Elroy-Sparta State Trail, gives riders an opportunity to traverse three tunnels. …
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The Walkway Over the Hudson state park has an illustrious railroad history dating back to the opening of the massive…
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Was the Blue Streak Merchandise the last Great American Freight Train? “You define a passenger train by its cars, its…
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The 20th century saw a dramatic increase in railroad labor productivity. In 1916, the peak year for U.S. Class I…
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The new Sherman Hill line in 1953 was Union Pacific’s latest improvement over the massive undertaking of building and maintaining…
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Tour the Chicago Railroad Fair through the pages of the 1948 Official Guide Book. FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL…
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View the public schedule of the 1963 West Virginia Centennial Special. Download the schedule by clicking on the PDF below. WV_Centennial_Schedule …
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1920s-era map of the Springfield Terminal Railway, a coal-hauling short line northeast of Springfield, Ill., covered in Spring 2017 Classic…
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Because of a production error with our Spring 2016 issue, the map that should have accompanied the article “Calamity at…
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Read about East Tennessee & Western North Carolina’s last narrow-gauge run in the article, “Tweetsie’s Last Trip,” from the January…
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South of 30th Street Station in September 1980, an Amtrak E60 accelerates a train toward Washington while, in the background,…
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