Fall 2015

Fall 2015

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

Feature Articles

A Century of Catenary

By Frank Tatnall

The Main Line west of Philadelphia — the first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s empire under wire — has been a grand stage for electric traction since 1915

Ingles Color Classics: Monon Moments: Riding the Route, Then Behind a BL2

By J. David Ingles

Four facets of my railfan hobby coalesced on an October 1975 weekend in Louisville

Just Before the End

By Fred B. Furminger

Traveling to see Grand Trunk Western and Illinois Central steam in February 1960, only weeks before diesels took over for good

Bird’s-Eye View: Rio Grande’s Burnham Shops in Denver

By Hol Wagner and Christopher Ahrens

Denver & Rio Grande Western’s Denver complex has gone from narrow-gauge-only to Union Pacific GE diesels

Donald J. Russell: Dynamic Leader of the Golden Empire

By John R. Signor

Southern Pacific’s outspoken president hired out as a lowly “instrument man” in 1920 and went on to challenge the railroad industry in the postwar era

What’s in a Photograph? Virginian Railway Train 4 at Roanoke

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

A Pacific departs with the coal road’s daily passenger local to Norfolk in 1955

The “Bridgeboro Boogie”

By Russell Tedder

A shortline interchange in south Georgia’s “Pidcock kingdom” had a brief life

Last Stop Before World War II

By Bill Graper

The hidden story behind photos of my grandfather running the new Empire State Express

Chesapeake & Ohio’s Big Sandy Budds

By Larry K. Fellure

On riding unique RDCs into “the coal bin of America”

In Every Issue

Welcome

Main Line memories

Contributors

Meet this issue’s crew

Head End

Return of a monarch • Big day at Galesburg • Tight squeeze for two D&H 4-6-6-4s • Beauty and a beast • Joe Collias obituary

Fast Mail

Letters from our readers

True Color

Burlington Northern merger rainbow: Don’t forget the fourth member

Fallen Flags Remembered

Erie Railroad: “The Work of the Age”

Classics Today

Kentucky Railway Museum

The Way It Was

An Afternoon with Milwaukee Steam • Rat Hole Railroading • NP’s Popover Pro

Car Stop

Trolleys in That Toddlin’ Town — Chicago

Ready Track

Reviews of new books and new DVDs

Bumping Post

Where the Rock Island Stood Tallest — Peoria, Ill.

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