Railroad photography and the lasting influence of painting
FULL SCREEN Édouard Baldus/J. Paul Getty Museum Toulon Station, c. 1861. Édouard Baldus, who trained as a painter and worked…
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What was it like working at Lionel’s Hillside, NJ factory during the postwar electric train boom? [...]Read More...
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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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Watch some of the 16mm films of Big Boys and Challengers Stan Kistler took during his 1956 trip, excerpted from…
Read moreThe Salton Sea in Southern California was formed in 1907 when men tried to redirect Colorado River irrigation canals and…
Read moreWatch some of the 16mm films of Big Boys and Challengers Stan Kistler took during his 1956 trip, excerpted from…
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Santa Fe 2-8-2 3243 climbs west toward Summit, Calif., in 1952. Chard Walker In the early 1940s, when steam locomotives…
Read moreTrains magazine celebrates Grand Central Terminal’s 100th anniversary in our February 2013 issue with a comprehensive look at America’s most…
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West of Huntington, Ind., on the Erie Lackawanna, in March 1976, an EL U25B and GP35 back down to an…
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It may look like a tiny handrail, but this is actually an AM antenna installed on some 1940s-era passenger cars.…
Read moreFULL SCREEN Phil Sullivan A heavy-duty crane is ready to lift the statue of Luther G. Smith, founder of the…
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Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3760, author Elwood’s “bad luck” engine, leads the second section of the Grand Canyon west near…
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