Short Line Railroads
You got it. Railroads covered most of the country with branches, and sidings and house tracks, where one…
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Join Trains editors on a short tour of the best parts of Rochelle, Ill., for rail fans — the places…
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Yes it is, Brian. In fact, intermodal passed coal in 2013 as railroads’ biggest revenue source. In 2014,…
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Sure thing, Angela. Since the Baltimore & Ohio began hauling flour from Ellicott’s Mills to Baltimore in 1830…
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For an industry which hauls the heaviest, densest loads overland, no other material has proven itself more useful…
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Join Trains editors on a brief tour of the historic Case Scenic Railroad in Cass, West Virginia. See video of…
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But this new source of revenue has a troubling side. Rapid growth strains the capacity of railroads to…
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Thanks, Jim. Canadian National is the No. 1 lumber-hauling railroad in the U.S. It takes particleboard out of British…
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This video was originally published by Trains as part of the Locomotive 2017 DVD. BNSF Needles Subdivision stretches from the…
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This video was originally published by Trains as part of the Locomotive 2017 DVD. Canadian Pacific’s transcontinental mainline across Canada…
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Originally, cars didn’t have it so good. They went in boxcars. They went on flatcars, stacked one on…
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This video was originally published by Trains as part of the Locomotive 2017 DVD. Natural gas as a locomotive fuel…
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