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Pennsylvania Railroad’s coast-to-coast air-rail service, run jointly with the Santa Fe and Trancontinental Air Transport, was championed by PRR president…
Read morePennsylvania Railroad’s coast-to-coast air-rail service, run jointly with the Santa Fe and Trancontinental Air Transport, was championed by PRR president…
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Baltimore & Ohio timeline: 1827 Charter approved 1828 Official start of construction on July 4 1830 Scheduled service begins, Baltimore-Ellicotts…
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Returning to Benning Yard, CSX local B701 makes its way slowly north on the historic Shepherd Industrial Track, near Anacostia…
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Here’s a variation on a familiar World War II theme, the diverse geographical backgrounds of men serving together in the…
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I hired out in 1944 with the Santa Fe as an agent/operator apprentice and in August was assigned to the…
Read moreDuring my career as an engineman on the Southern Pacific, I ran and fired locomotives carrying from 185 to 300…
Read moreThe year was 1966; I was 19 years old and starting my second summer working on the Great Lakes. This…
Read moreBefore a 1960 line-relocation project, the two main tracks of the Santa Fe Railway’s transcontinental main line split at Supai,…
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In the days before airlines and interstates began siphoning off rail freight and passenger business – and big railroads merged…
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At the end of the 1930s, the United States stood as the world leader in railroad electrification. With 2400 route-miles…
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JOHN W. BARRIGER III One of the most peripatetic chief executives in railroading-he led Monon, P&LE, Katy, and Boston &…
Read moreAt age 4, I looked forward to 2 p.m. That was the hour my grandfather would return to our house…
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