The Lincoln Funeral Train: A somber journey that left behind a historic memory
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, sent a Civil War-battered country into 20 days of national mourning.…
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The Brightline West project is about to get its official kickoff. While various surveying and other preparation…
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Southern Pacific In 2024, with few exceptions, we have seen the Class I railroads settle down on basic locomotive color…
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Enjoy an insider’s look at an informal operating session hosted on Steve Miazga’s N scale (1:160) model railroad, set in…
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Nebraska’s U.S. Route 30 LOCATION: Trains Columnist Don Phillips prescribed driving Nebraska’s U.S. Route 30 along the Union Pacific main…
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GE’s B30-7 In the late 1970s, General Electric introduced the B30-7, a 16-cylinder, 3,000-hp, four-axle locomotive designed for road service.…
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Railroad fusees My first memory of using railroad fusees [flares] for signaling was on an early winter morning in 1978.…
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Facts and features Name: Georgia & Florida RRScale: HO (1:87.1)Size: 12 x 13 feetPrototype: Georgia & FloridaLocale: Central and…
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Facts and features Name: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4th Street SpurScale: HO (1:87.1)Size: 1′-6″ x 8′-0″Prototype: Atchison, Topeka…
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It’s a dangerous world out here I heard from a reader who’d recently become a railroader. A camera tot’n railfan…
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Freight paint schemes When public image was a big deal for railroads, many of them went out of their way…
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Rumors of the death of railroad fiction are greatly exaggerated. The veteran railroad journalist Fred Frailey made that clear a…
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