Bellevue: Norfolk Southern’s Midwest Powerhouse
Bellevue Yard It’s over 5 miles long. It’s capable of serving a hundred trains a day. It’s the center point…
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Mind-blowing facts about the GM Aerotrain By the 1950s it was clear that the passenger train was not the wave…
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I wrote last month about working grain trains west as a young brakeman. This month’s story, entitled “Trust me,” is…
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Who built the steam locomotives? In the transportation business of today, “Big Three” invariably means General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler,…
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History of track gauge: The gauge of a railroad is the distance between the inside vertical surfaces of the head…
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Railroad ghost town When the evening breeze whispers, Rhyolite, a railroad ghost town in Nevada, almost seems to come alive.…
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Death Valley Railroad Of all the places to run a railroad, perhaps the last you might expect to find one…
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Meet the Enthusiasts We are not alone, although it sure can feel that way. Many of us have, at one…
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The caboose Steel caboose No. 3674 was built in 1941 for the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, originally numbered 90091.…
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I’m heartened to see Amtrak intends to explore a 200-mph Dallas-Houston passenger rail service in cooperation with Texas Central Partners.…
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North Dakota’s corn trains When you watch a freight train pass, it will most likely be comprised of cars that…
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It’s strange but true: Diesel-electric locomotives have streetcar roots. With diesel locomotives rapidly replacing steam locomotives in the years after…
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