Fall 2019

Fall 2019

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

Feature Articles

1944: Steam’s Last Great Year

By Kevin P. Keefe

75 years ago, as rail traffic hit its World War II peak, more than 350 magnificent steam locomotives took to the rails

View additional photos of the great steam locomotives built in 1944.

Mystery at Barberton

By Dan Olah

Persistent research pays off to identify peculiar photos from the past

Alcos in Dairyland

By J. David Ingles

A weeklong 1964 odyssey concludes in northeastern Wisconsin

What’s in a Photograph? Clinchfield’s tunnel at Spartanburg, S.C.

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

F units use a three-year-old bore to pass under the Southern Railway main line on March 13, 1966

Northwestern Exposure

By Scott Lothes

John Bjorklund enjoyed shooting Kodachrome around Cascadia in the 1970s

The Best of Everything: A Territory of My Own

By Chris Burger

A stint at NYC headquarters in New York is followed by a trainmaster post in central Pennsylvania

In Every Issue

Welcome

Steam’s last great year

Head End

Big Boy’s big comeback • The “final answer” in diesel design? • Reviews of new books • PRR steam under foreign wire • Dual-gauge in Mexico • Rich roof-top detail • Don Evans obituary

Fast Mail

Letters from readers on our Summer 2019 issue

True Color

FTs for Santa Fe’s Fast Mail

Mileposts

Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe on photographer John Bjorklund

The Way It Was

Yellow Diesel-Hydraulic! • Hoghead Turns Cow Killer • Room Service on the Pennsy

Car Stop

Cincinnati’s adaptable overhead

Classics Today

Three war babies still in steam

Bumping Post

Gateway to the Great Salt Lake

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