Florida from the air
We’re high above Seaboard Coast Line’s Uceta Yard and locomotive shop on Sept. 26 1970. Below is the busy former…
Read moreWe’re high above Seaboard Coast Line’s Uceta Yard and locomotive shop on Sept. 26 1970. Below is the busy former…
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Q This is a follow-up question to one in the July 2010 issue about the three air hoses on locomotives…
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Q How do railroad design engineers measure track curvature in the United States? I believe it has something to do…
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Marc Horovitz Here are a few of my favorite old model-train books, all published before 1960, in chronological order. There…
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Santa Fe’s premier train, the Chicago-Los Angeles Super Chief, was the first to get dome cars. Santa Fe called them…
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Ringling’s Blue Unit circus train exits Huntsman Canyon at Moapa, Nev., June 15, 2010, oln its way to Las Vegas.…
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Click the image to download this interactive PDF. It ’s not likely that Trains readers would immediately recognize the significance…
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Sign over car shop. Employee notifications are posted in English and French. Bob Johnston This unusual RDC4 originally built for…
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A North Star commuter train waits at the end of the line, Big Lake, Minn, before its return trip to…
Read moreQ I’ve read that when some railroads sent their steam locomotives in for a complete overhaul, they changed the main…
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Southern Pacific 2-10-2 3757 rests at Sparks, Nev., in 1948. J. F. Larison I went firing on the Southern Pacific’s…
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To our family, the ultimate train was not the Broadway, the 20th Century, or the exalted Dominion that plied our…
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