Winter 2015

Winter 2015

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

Feature Articles

Hudson Valley Hot Spot

By David W. Salter

Summer 1952 was the perfect time for steam and diesel variety on New York Central’s Hudson Division

See video clips from the Sunday River Productions archives of New York Central steam in action.

“Somebody’ll die on you, for sure!”

By Chuck Larrabee

A prediction from a Santa Fe veteran gave a rookie coach attendant on Amtrak’s El Capitan in 1971 some pause

What’s in a Photograph? CB&Q’s West Burlington Shop

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

An early 1950s gathering of F units, E units, a motor car, and two 44-tonners

Ingles Color Classics: Catching the Sales Pitchers

By J. David Ingles

Encounters with demonstrators through the 1960s whetted our diesel interest

Vermont Snowplow Weekend

By Roger Cook

A heavy Friday evening storm made for a brighter Saturday

Before the J

By C. K. Marsh Jr.

About the N&W 4-8-2s best known as ‘J Juniors’

Steam in the Sunrise

By Jim Shaughnessy

Nova Scotia’s coal-hauling Sydney & Louisburg — the easternmost standard-gauge railroad in North America — was one of the continent’s final diesel conquests

See more photos from Jim Shaughnessy’s visit to the Sydney & Louisburg Railway.

B&O’s Western Outpost

By Leigh Morris

There was a down-home quality about the branch to Beardstown, Illinois, a distant corner of a far-flung empire

Herding the Goats

By Barry Anderson

In the waning days of SP steam, a young fireman with visions of mainline glory often had to settle for duty on lowly switch engines

In Every Issue

Welcome

Back yards and new horizons

Contributors

Meet this issue’s crew

Head End

The Odd Trio • A streetcar named patriotism • Fancy power for a freight • Frank Kozempel obituary • Harold K. Vollrath obituary

Fast Mail

Letters from our readers

True Color

Last run on Virginia’s Washington & Old Dominion Railroad

Fallen Flags Remembered

The Upper Peninsula’s Railroad: Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic

Classics Today

Take a ride on the old Rutland Railway

The Way It Was

A Different Kind of Intermodal • Kentucky Whistlestop • An Idea Ahead of Its Time

Car Stop

British Columbia Electric Railway’s big wood cars

Ready Track

Reviews of new books

Bumping Post

Louisville Union Station in Wartime

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