The Lincoln Funeral Train: A somber journey that left behind a historic memory
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, sent a Civil War-battered country into 20 days of national mourning.…
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Railroad fusees My first memory of using railroad fusees [flares] for signaling was on an early winter morning in 1978.…
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It’s a dangerous world out here I heard from a reader who’d recently become a railroader. A camera tot’n railfan…
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Trona Railway The California desert is different from the rest of the state. Remote, vast, and lonely, it is a…
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Diesel-electric locomotive technology has advanced significantly since World War II. Experience leads me to list these eight technological breakthroughs as…
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Electrification of railroads North American freight trains are powered by diesel locomotives. Before the diesels, steam engines did the work.…
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On February 2, 1949, 75 years ago, a train arrived in New York harbor. It was not on the rails…
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Amtrak’s Hilltopper What had a locomotive on each end, two coaches in the middle, a crew of six, few passengers,…
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West Side Freight Line New York Central’s West Side Freight Line, more formally named the 30th Street Branch, was the…
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I got a late afternoon call to be the rear brakeman on train No. 1/146/05 (South Pool, Seattle to Portland,…
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Canaan Union Depot The past The story of this historic building traces back to the 1870s, a busy time for…
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What was your first byline in Trains? Steve Smedley: My first byline in Trains was “Confessions of a ‘Sacred Central…
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