Summer 2015

Summer 2015

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

Feature Articles

Nickel-Plated Glory

By Jim Shaughnessy

In 1957, the fabled 2-8-4s were still in command of fast freights along Lake Erie

See more of Jim Shaughnessy’s March 1957 photos of Nickel Plate Berkshires in action.

Amtrak’s GG1 That Might Have Been

By Denny Hamilton

After a few GG1s received Amtrak’s garish new paint scheme, men in the company’s design department toyed with an equally striking alternative

Low Water, Close Call

By Richard F. Borsos

The crew on a New York Central 2-8-2 gets a scare one cold night in 1951

What’s In a Photograph? Santa Fe’s El Capitan on Raton Pass

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

Steam helps diesel with the four-month-old Chicago—L.A. coach streamliner on June 26, 1938

Fast Ride to Florida

By Mike Schafer

A Chicago-to-Miami church trip on a special train 50 years ago remains one of the greatest railroad journeys of my life

Ingles Color Classics: Gem of the Prairie State

By J. David Ingles

A nod to Illinois Central’s Green Diamond

When Trains Ran Late — and Telegraphers Earned Their Pay

By R. David Read

Sit in with a telegrapher on SP’s San Joaquin Division on a typically busy night in the 1950s

Bird’s-Eye View: Boylan Wye in Raleigh, N.C.

By William A. Allen III

Where Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway met in North Carolina’s capital, in 1949

Great Photographers: Coast to Coast with Bob Milner

By J. David Ingles

This prolific photographer traveled widely, but concentrated on his native Midwest

The Malfunctioning Mallet

By Louis A. Marre

Outdoor maintenance was not uncommon on seven Frisco misfit articulateds

In Every Issue

Welcome

Color in a black-and-white world

Contributors

Meet this issue’s crew

Head End

Southbound from snowbound Buffalo • San Francisco comes to Lake Michigan • Smoke duct demonstration • What a place for a photo stop! • Charles W. Lindenberg obituary

Fast Mail

Letters from our readers

True Color

Helping hand on the Union Pacific — a Baldwin diesel and a 4-8-4

Fallen Flags Remembered

The Difficult Life of the Tennessee Central

Classics Today

Pullman Rail Journeys

The Way It Was

The Last FA • We Volunteered for KP • First Day on the Job: South Amboy

Car Stop

Variety on Canada’s Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto

Ready Track

Reviews of new books

Bumping Post

Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Sunday Morning at Barnegat, N.J.

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