Chicago & Eastern Illinois locomotives remembered
Chicago & Eastern Illinois locomotives served the road well through many decades of operation. C&EI was a coal-hauling…
Read moreChicago & Eastern Illinois locomotives served the road well through many decades of operation. C&EI was a coal-hauling…
Read moreAmtrak GP40 diesel locomotives came in two flavors: eight former GO Transit GP40TCs acquired in October 1988 and 15 straight…
Read moreWalking out the 15th Street side entrance to Detroit’s Michigan Central Station last Friday morning, I found myself channeling the…
Read moreMy first regular assignment as a brakeman on the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1977 was one that no one…
Read moreThe Budd Co. and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy went hand in hand in building the streamlined Zephyr fleet, though the…
Read moreDETROIT — The magnificent indoor space at Michigan Central Station that once hosted New York Central passenger trains has been…
Read moreSILVIS, Ill. — Union Pacific DDA40X Centennial diesel No. 6936 will be on display at a free “Summer of Safety”…
Read moreDETROIT — The city of Detroit has seen its share of comebacks over the past 20 years, but nothing quite…
Read moreROCKHILL FURNACE, Pa. – Already powering past its current-year fund-raising goal, the volunteer Friends of the East Broad Top group…
Read moreTHOMASTON, Conn. — The Railroad Museum of New England’s Naugatuck Railroad will formally unveil the museum’s restored Russell snow plow…
Read moreUnion Pacific steam locomotive Every operating steam locomotive you see: Union Pacific No. 4014, Canadian Pacific No. 2816, NKP No.…
Read moreHere today, gone tomorrow A lack of diversity in locomotive models — and paint schemes — tends to give many…
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