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…
Read moreMany of us didn’t want to believe that the steam era was drawing to a close — that diesels, those…
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…
Read moreIn the small town of Goshen, Ind., where I grew up, one was always aware of the New York Central.…
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All the high excitement, thrills and tensions of railway experience are not the exclusive province of the operating department employees.…
Read moreWe have nothing special planned for June 6, 1957 — the 13th anniversary of the D-Day invasion — but it…
Read moreJohn was one of the many engineers I fired for on passenger trains on the Southern Pacific between Sparks and…
Read moreAt 1:45 p.m. on a sunny spring afternoon in 1955, the pace of activity at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy…
Read moreIt goes without saying that the smooth handling of Seaboard Coast Line’s Florida streamliners was a matter of personal pride…
Read moreKAAABOOM! I woke in my roomette with a start as the car lurched forward a couple of feet. Caaaa-lank, clank,…
Read moreThe silver bunk car marked “D&RGW” rests on the stockyard spur next to Cisco siding, windows open to the night…
Read moreIn the 1940’s, a rookie Southern Pacific locomotive fireman was always glad to see on the board that he had…
Read moreIn the winter of 1943, I was assigned to the firemen’s extra board at Des Moines Iowa, on the Rock…
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