Why Michigan Central Station matters
Walking out the 15th Street side entrance to Detroit’s Michigan Central Station last Friday morning, I found myself channeling the…
Read moreWalking out the 15th Street side entrance to Detroit’s Michigan Central Station last Friday morning, I found myself channeling the…
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Facts and features Name: Olli’s RailroadScale: large scale (1:29)Size: 20 x 430 feetPrototype: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and…
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Facts and features Name: Southern Pacific Keeler BranchScale: On30 (1:48 proportion, 30″ narrow gauge, also called On21⁄2)Size: 6 x…
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DC-to-AC rebuild During the middle of May, Canadian National tested its first modified DC-to-AC rebuild on an ore train in…
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My first regular assignment as a brakeman on the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1977 was one that no one…
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The Budd Co. and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy went hand in hand in building the streamlined Zephyr fleet, though the…
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Vermont railroading The State of Vermont purchased 177 miles of the former Rutland Railroad in 1963, two years after the…
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Union Pacific steam locomotive Every operating steam locomotive you see: Union Pacific No. 4014, Canadian Pacific No. 2816, NKP No.…
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Here today, gone tomorrow A lack of diversity in locomotive models — and paint schemes — tends to give many…
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Like many other railfans back in the mid-1960s, I was shooting using black & white negative film essentially on…
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois history was special to those to watched the railroad firsthand. In the pantheon of…
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Unstoppable Thursday, June 20, 1968, began simply enough — clear, sunny, and warm. As a newly minted Santa Fe acting…
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