Serendipity on a mail car
Join Trains for a ride on a former Northern Pacific triple-combine express car as a retired mail car clerk, a…
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Hammond Lumber Co. 2-8-2T No. 16 displays an extended smokebox in this undated photo. The seam is just ahead of…
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Jim Shaughnessey, shown in 2002 at Enola, Pa. Robert S. McGonigal TROY, N.Y. – Of all the pioneers who revolutionized…
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Andrew J. Russell (American, 1830-1902), East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail, 1869, albumen print. The ceremony spotlighted…
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SALT LAKE CITY — The journey to Promontory for 21st century rail enthusiasts wanting to taste the history of the…
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Although author Dinsmore’s territory was some 1,500 miles to the west, this 1966 scene inside Northern Pacific’s depot in South…
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Niles Canyon Railway, which fields both steam and diesel power, will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad in…
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DETROIT – The news this week that the Ford Motor Co. has purchased Detroit’s crumbling but historic Michigan Central Station…
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Russell Tedder’s 16-hour 70-tonner ride occurred in July 1955, when he was dispatching for the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf…
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See color film footage of Mobile & Gulf No. 97 at work from the Sunday River Productions program Steaming Through the…
Read moreSee color film footage of Mobile & Gulf No. 97 at work from the Sunday River Productions program Steaming Through the…
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Trains Magazine kicks off a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad with a special tour and two…
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