Winter 2018

Winter 2018

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

Feature Articles

Canadian Pacific’s Rural Gem

By Jim Shaughnessy

Quebec Central featured steam-powered mixed trains in a pastoral setting

A Long Trip That Turned Out Longer

By John E. Huegel

Delays were rampant when my family took a trip from Mexico City to Hannibal, Mo., in 1945

My Conrail Beginnings

By Larry DeYoung

Remembering the years when the big blue railroad began the transition from federal ward and hopeless basket case to a reinvigorated force for change in freight transportation

What’s in a Photograph? Family connection at Billings, August 2, 1961

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

Burlington Route trains for Denver and Lincoln and NP’s North Coast Limited meet and exchange passengers, mail, and express

California Photo Special

Steam and diesel on Western Pacific, Great Northern, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific

Action at Jackson

By Ron Flanary

At last with my own wheels, in 1967 I finally could take in L&N’s Elkatawa Hill pusher operation

How Many Ways Can You Spell Rock Island?

By J. David Ingles

To get units back on the road, shop employees prioritized function over appearance

Pullman’s Summer Swan Song

By Bob Johnston

A rookie tour escort had a ringside seat for chartered sleeping cars’ final season 50 years ago

The Best of Everything: Off-the-Job Training

By Chris Burger

Railfan jaunts contributed to my development as a railroader

In Every Issue

Welcome

Farewell to two giants

Head End

Classy freight power • Celebrities at Sunnyside • Reviews of new books • 6,500 miles from La Grange • Classic Trains crew changes

Fast Mail

Letters from readers on our Fall 2018 issue

Mileposts

Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe

True Color

E6 at the 1939 world’s fair

Fallen Flags Remembered

Wabash Railroad

The Way It Was

My Best Train Ride • Oak Hill, Population 16

Car Stop

Piedmont & Northern

Classics Today

Rock Island E units restored

Bumping Post

The Milwaukee Road’s hometown station

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