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During my career as an engineman on the Southern Pacific, I ran and fired locomotives carrying from 185 to 300…
Read moreDuring my career as an engineman on the Southern Pacific, I ran and fired locomotives carrying from 185 to 300…
Read moreThe year was 1966; I was 19 years old and starting my second summer working on the Great Lakes. This…
Read moreIn June 1949, my friend Bob Wagner and I decided to head from our Los Angels-area homes for the Owens…
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When I read Rev. Richard Anderson’s account in the Summer 2000 Classic Trains [pages 93-95] of his travels on the…
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The end of the 19th century marked the beginning of a conservation movement in America. Naturalists and environmentalists lobbied the…
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In the Fall 2001 issue of Classic Trains magazine, Senior Editor Dave Ingles recounts his train trip to and from…
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Today you can ride across the United States aboard long-distance Amtrak trains such as the Lake Shore Limited, Silver Star,…
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Before a 1960 line-relocation project, the two main tracks of the Santa Fe Railway’s transcontinental main line split at Supai,…
Read moreMerger? What merger? Two tariffs equal one trip By J. David Ingles As railroad mergers were sweeping the land through…
Read moreAs an Episcopal priest serving in Iowa in the 1960’s, I was lucky to have Gordon V. Smith as my…
Read moreFor many years, the Lehigh Valley maintained some offices in downtown Philadelphia, even though this was an off-line point. In…
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