Rolling by rocks
A southbound Canadian National freight rolls through a limestone quarry in Waukesha, Wis., in August 2011. Stone, sand, and gravel…
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Click to see what’s inside this special issue Click the links to see all the online extras from How to…
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Model Railroader managing editor David Popp developed an operating scheme for his N scale New Haven layout. Adopting the idea…
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When SP cab-forward 4173 derailed on the turntable at Tucson, “suits” and laborers reported to the scene. R. S. Plummer,…
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In the early 2000s, North America’s 88 automobile assembly plants produced about 15 million new cars and trucks a year.…
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Coal is the most important rail commodity in the United States. In the early 2000s, when this map was produced,…
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Geographic growth by acquisition or merger, and the elimination of redundant routes by sale or abandonment, are two factors that…
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Compared here are the main lines of railroads that, for most of the 20th century, fed the nation with its…
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Commercial shipping on the Great Lakes follows a 2,300-mile corridor from the St. Lawrence Seaway to the western edge of…
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This Map of the Month was featured in the February 2009 issue of Trains magazine. The railroad Abraham Lincoln so…
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This Map of the Month appeared in the February 2004 issue of Trains magazine. Historians have argued that one key to…
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Twenty-four years separate these two density maps — a long time in North American railroading. The 1974 Penn Central map…
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