Train signals and interlockings unraveled
Train signals All dark, two silent sentinels guard their respective tracks on the double-track main line. Just beyond them is…
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Great Circus Train In January 2017, the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus announced it was closing down after more…
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Irish Rail It was the early 1990s and I was an Electro-Motive Division export locomotive district sales manager in the…
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What was your first byline in Trains? Thomas Danneman: My first byline was in the March 2006 issue. I had…
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I was promoted to conductor on May 19, 1981. This was rare at my age — I had just turned…
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It always bothered me that I couldn’t identify the engineer in this picture of Amtrak train No. 98, departing Main…
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Diesel locomotive builders 1. American Locomotive Company For many years after World War II, Alco — the American Locomotive Company…
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Rotary snowplow Snow … There are few things that mother nature can throw at the unsuspecting railroader that can wreak…
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Shortline railroading For many independent shortline operators, staying fiscally sound today means disregarding so much of what was once a…
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U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward must have thought he was making the real estate deal of a lifetime…
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Norfolk & Western Business Car No. 300 It seems like my trip on the Super Dome was only the beginning…
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Rolling stones Cresting Sand Patch while witnessing an Allegheny Summit sunrise on the former Baltimore & Ohio was one of…
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