How to find trains
Recently, I began teaching a series of classes at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania titled Railroad Photography 101. I cover…
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This full-page ad from roller bearing manufacturer Timken appeared 75 years ago in the May 1950 issue of Trains Magazine.…
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Although replaced in recent years by roller bearings, friction bearings (also called solid bearings or plain bearings) were a railroad…
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WASHINGTON — Almost a decade after Amtrak cancelled “National Train Day,” an outreach promotion launched in 2008 designed to familiarize…
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Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864,…
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Railroad dome cars are a gleaming symbol of postwar passenger train status. The streamliner era in North America…
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The Fertilizer Route, more formally The Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad, featured 75 years ago in Trains Magazine was,…
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The rapid expansion of America’s railroad system in the 1800s and early 1900s was driven largely by a small group…
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CORINTH, N.Y. — The Saratoga Corinth & Hudson Railway, the heritage railway located on the former Delaware & Hudson Adirondack…
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ELBE, Wash. — A major wooden trestle on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad has been destroyed in a potential arson…
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The commander of a May 1953 U.S. Army troop train out of Fort Meade, Md., confers with a Baltimore &…
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Union Pacific has unveiled its Abraham Lincoln commemorative locomotive, honoring the president who signed the…
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