Fall 2016

Two teenagers living in dieselized Los Angeles thought they’d missed their shot at Southern Pacific steam — until they discovered it was still on the job around the Bay Area
Watch film footage from the Herron Rail Video archives of Southern Pacific steam in action.

Two pioneering rail photographers bring New York society to the Colorado back country

Nine months in Knoxville was a culture shift, but productive

Four massive structures at Superior, Wis., loaded over a billion tons of iron ore

Engineer and fireman team to overcome a huge clinker on a superb Delaware & Hudson 2-8-0 in 1950

A boy learns about the wider railroad world during early-1960s afternoons at the PRR’s great New York terminal

Listen to a recording from 1963 of train announcements at Penn Station, New York, from the archives of Semaphore Records.

Rock Island power from El Reno goes to tie up as a Missouri Pacific train passes overhead

Chesapeake & Ohio abruptly ended steam in Michigan, but not before sending PM 2-8-4s to coal country

For 114 years, Canada’s smallest province hosted a seeming 1-to-1 scale model railroad