A Metra crewman watches as a passenger lifts a bicycle onto a train at the Grayland station in December 2018. Metra has received a $17.8-million grant to replace a bridge adjacent to the station. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra will receive a $17.8 million federal grant to replace an aging bridge near its Grayland […]
A Metra UP West train departs La Fox, Ill., and heads towards its final stop in Elburn on July 29, 2019. PTC-related changes to schedules for a number of UP West trains are among schedule adjustments announced by Metra. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra will make minor schedule adjustments on five of its routes […]
As a streetcar rolls by, Missouri Pacific 0-8-0 9721 and caboose have tied on to stalled 2-10-2 helper 1716 and 4-8-4 road engine 2111. Soon the three engines begin to march up Missouri’s Kirkwood Hill in March 1946. Joe Collias photo […]
St. Louis-San Francisco semi-streamlined 4-8-2 No. 1503 works at Kirkwood, Mo., in 1942. The railroad, best known simply as the Frisco, had 30 such locomotives built by Baldwin from 1923 to 1926. William Barham photo, Don Wirth collection […]
A headache for trailer-on-flatcar ramp operations happened when flatcars arrived facing the wrong direction. This Milwaukee Road car goes for a spin on a turntable in 1969. Gerald R. Rademacher photo […]
The Chicago Railroad Fair of 1948–49 included modern equipment displays and a pageant featuring a reenactment of the 1869 Golden Spike ceremony, seen here. B.L. Stone, Krambles-Peterson Archive […]
Lightning-striped Fairbanks Morse C Liners hustle New York Central train No. 37 east at Millbury, Ohio, with the help of 4-6-4 No. 5273. The junction, 7.5 miles east of Toledo, joins parallel New York Central routes east to Cleveland. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
A Gulf, Mobile & Ohio-painted GP30 and GP35 roll an Illinois Central Gulf train south near Odell, Ill., on the main line connecting Chicago, Springfield, Ill.; and Kansas City, Mo., in July 1980. J. David Ingles photo […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Enjoy this exclusive video tour of John Mueller’s C&NW-themed HO scale (1:87) layout inspired by railroad operations and locations in northern Wisconsin. Follow the action along the line, and then look for additional coverage of the layout in a forthcoming issue of Model Railroader magazine. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Enjoy this exclusive video tour of John Mueller’s C&NW-themed HO scale (1:87) layout inspired by railroad operations and locations in northern Wisconsin. Follow the action along the line, and then look for additional coverage of the layout in a forthcoming issue of Model Railroader magazine. […]
Luis Arroyo, Illinois state representative Illinois General Assembly website CHICAGO — A key Illinois legislator appeared before Metra’s board Wednesday to take credit for helping the agency receive about $1.6 billion in infrastructure funding, but also chided the agency’s lack of Latino leadership, calling it a “good old boys network” that needed to change. Illinois […]
A replica combine is underway in Eastern Iowa. John Schumann MAQUOKETA, Iowa — The Bellevue & Cascade was a 3-foot gauge Milwaukee Road branch that ran between its namesake towns in eastern Iowa. The B&C lasted longer than any other Midwestern narrow gauge, being sold to a shortline railroad before finally folding in 1936. In […]
