Rio Grande railfanning
Think “Rio Grande” and one imagines long freights grinding through the tunnels and screeching around the tight curves of the…
Read moreThink “Rio Grande” and one imagines long freights grinding through the tunnels and screeching around the tight curves of the…
Read moreShreveport is profiled in Kalmbach’s Guide to North American Hot Spots by TRAINS Senior Editor J. David Ingles. Read below…
Read moreSoldier Summit is one of two sites in Utah profiled in Kalmbach’s Guide to North American Hot Spots by TRAINS…
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Eastbound BNSF freights from Seattle descend into Spokane on the Indian Canyon Bridge, part of a 1970s relocation of the…
Read moreTexarkana is one of four sites in Texas profiled in Kalmbach’s Guide to North American Hot Spots by TRAINS Senior…
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Tulsa-Sapulpa Union No. 104 borrows a page from the story ” The Little Engine that Could.” Hal Miller Tulsa, Okla.…
Read moreOgden is still a busy railroad town with main lines approaching from four different directions. From the east, Union Pacific…
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Scenic highlight of a ride on the Panama Canal Railway is the Montelino Causeway across Gatun Lake. Bob Johnston The…
Read moreIt was December 2005 when I wrote the rough draft of my story on using GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) to…
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Norfolk & Western Y6-Class 2-8-8-2 No. 2136 thunders east near Delbarton, W.Va., with a coal train on March 25, 1959.…
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Capturing the disappearing aspects of American life is photographer David Plowden’s stock in trade. He proudly relates that his first…
Read moreDavid W. Salter’s natural curiosity took him trackside throughout the South in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, photographing railroads in…
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