Spring 2016

In 1953, a boy and his dad thrilled to the constant mainline action of Union Pacific’s Big Boys, Challengers, and Northerns

Delaware & Hudson’s Montreal—New York City day train pulls into Plattsburgh, N.Y., on August 10, 1957

The lightweight Prairies and Mikados that never were

See video clips from the Herron Rail Video archives of smaller Canadian National steam power in action.
View blueprints for the CN Prairies and Mikados that never got off the drawing board.

Sometimes, diamonds are not a passenger’s best friend

In 1973 at an Ohio tower, a rookie EL operator catches both a good break and a bad one

Southern Railway learned some lessons in technology from a 1968 Virginia coal train pile-up

Different perspectives of a train cresting Donner Pass

An express messenger on N&W’s Abingdon Branch gave his grandson the gift of railroading

Action at the heart of Detroit railroading a half century ago

A gas-electric waits for a steam train to clear the depot track in 1950

A trip in a drawing room on PRR’s Spirit of St. Louis remains a treasured memory