The Frisco in photographs
In the “Fallen Flags Remembered” section of the Spring 2001 CLASSIC TRAINS magazine, author Mike Condren reminisces about the St.…
Read moreIn the “Fallen Flags Remembered” section of the Spring 2001 CLASSIC TRAINS magazine, author Mike Condren reminisces about the St.…
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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 &…
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At age 4, I looked forward to 2 p.m. That was the hour my grandfather would return to our house…
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Many of us didn’t want to believe that the steam era was drawing to a close — that diesels, those…
Read moreI’m awakened by the sound of the phone ringing and his muffled voice saying, “It’s two-thirty. They probably want W-2…
Read moreIn the small town of Goshen, Ind., where I grew up, one was always aware of the New York Central.…
Read moreAll the high excitement, thrills and tensions of railway experience are not the exclusive province of the operating department employees.…
Read moreWe have nothing special planned for June 6, 1957 — the 13th anniversary of the D-Day invasion — but it…
Read moreJohn was one of the many engineers I fired for on passenger trains on the Southern Pacific between Sparks and…
Read moreAt 1:45 p.m. on a sunny spring afternoon in 1955, the pace of activity at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy…
Read moreIt goes without saying that the smooth handling of Seaboard Coast Line’s Florida streamliners was a matter of personal pride…
Read moreKAAABOOM! I woke in my roomette with a start as the car lurched forward a couple of feet. Caaaa-lank, clank,…
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