Spring 2017

Ride the locomotive on Colorado & Southern’s Climax Branch to the top of America’s standard-gauge trackage

Extensive rail facilities were required to support the Iowa town’s meatpacking plants

Adventures of a locomotive engineer on the Rock Island and Burlington Northern in the mid-1970s

Vessels of the SP, WP, and Santa Fe thrilled a boy from Oakland in the 1950s

In 1950, the heart of the Long Island Rail Road boasted steam, diesel, and electric

A 1955 assignment to Dayton enabled an Alabaman to catch the end of an era on one of the East’s biggest railroads

See B&O steam power in action and being serviced in footage from Herron Rail Video’s program Steam and Diesel on the Baltimore & Ohio.

A freshly shopped Berkshire is ready for what turned out to be a tragically short final season

Canadian National’s pioneering efforts led to North America’s first coast-to-coast broadcast network

An April 1971 weekend visit in Montgomery, Ala., welcomed us to warmer weather

Gone 65 years, Illinois’ version hauled coal

See a 1920s trackage map of Springfield Terminal.