Prior to chasing the Union Pacific Big Boy no. 4014 steam locomotive to Las Vegas, host Drew Halverson spent time in the sweltering Mojave Desert heat trying to keep up with some of the hottest BNSF and UP freight trains in action. Come along as Drew captures all sorts of beautiful arid scenery and hardworking […]
A Herzog contract work train on the BNSF Railway at Winslow, Ariz., on July 5, 2013. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
You squint through the train window to read the signs on parallel highway 148. They’re in French and English. It dawns on you that your ride in a Budd Rail Diesel Car from Ottawa to Montreal is about the most inauspicious way to begin a trip around the world. But no matter. It’s February 1974, […]
New crude oil tank cars roll west on Canadian Pacific rails through Duplainville, Wis., on Jan. 12, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Locomotives and rail cars are lined up on display at the 2014 National Train Day exhibit in Toledo, Ohio, on May 3. Photo by Joe Kohnen […]
Norfolk Southern train 19G, westbound at Lebanon, Pa., is led by SD70s Nos. 2539 and 2557 on Jan. 9, 2014. The track gang is installing new welded rail on both tracks of a 3-mile section of the double-track NS Harrisburg Line through this south-central Pennsylvania city. Photo by Mark W. Hoffman […]
A Union Pacific ethanol train led by AC4400CW No. 7007 skirts the Carquinez Strait at sunset. The train is passing Eckley Pier with the wrecked remains of the steamship Garden City in the water. Photo by Brian Roberts […]
Bystanders inspect a sedan deluged with coke during a derailment of an L&N train in Chattanooga. C. K. Marsh Jr. One day in 1965, a friend and I were searching for the obscure terminal of the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railroad in the Alton Park section of Chattanooga. Coming up on a railroad crossing, we […]
FULL SCREEN Mike Bjork One of the benefits of streetcars is that they introduce mass transit on the city streets where people park their cars, drive to work, and walk. A perfect example of that is with Portland’s original streetcar line where a person is about to cross in front of a northbound streetcar on […]
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 returned to Cheyenne, Wyo., on May 8, 2014, and Trains Editor Jim Wrinn was there to record the moment when the 4-8-8-4 and its tender inched back into the railroad’s steam shops. Only from Trains! […]
A BNSF Railway eastbound passes a disused water tower at Bellmont, Ariz., on July 5, 2013, on the former Santa Fe main line. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
Looking out of place, two CSX GEs take Canadian Pacific train No. 470 down North Second Street in Bellevue, Iowa, on Jan. 19, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
