MEDINA, Ohio – Famed author, artist, and rail historian Alvin F. Staufer died Oct. 30 in Medina. He was 88. Staufer is best known for his seminal works on the steam power of the New York Central System and Pennsylvania Railroad. Trains Editor David P. Morgan was so impressed with Pennsy Power, which Staufer co-authored […]
Train Topic: History
“Google Doodle” honors industrial designer Raymond Loewy NEWSWIRE
Loewy with a Pennsylvania Railroad S-1 class 6-4-4-6. Hagley Museum & Library A publiclity photo purporting to show the new ‘Broadway Limited’ includes K-4s No. 3768 and a solid train of lightweight cars. Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 No. 4905, designed by Loewy, at North Philadelphia. Krambles-Peterson Archive MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Internet giant Google has created […]
History According to Hediger: Modeling the Auto-Train in HO scale
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the 1970s, then editor Linn Westcott asked young associate editor Jim Hediger to build an HO model of the Auto-Train for the cover of the December 1974 issue of MR – all 38 cars of it! Jim shares the models he built […]
History According to Hediger: Modeling the Auto-Train in HO scale
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the 1970s, then editor Linn Westcott asked young associate editor Jim Hediger to build an HO model of the Auto-Train for the cover of the December 1974 issue of MR – all 38 cars of it! Jim shares the models he built […]
History According to Hediger: Riding the Auto-Train
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Planes, trains, automobiles, and even a tornado, this episode has it all! Jim recounts his trip to Florida in the 1970s on the then-new Auto-Train, but half the adventure proved to be just getting to the station! Related Topics: history according to hediger […]
History According to Hediger: Riding the Auto-Train
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Planes, trains, automobiles, and even a tornado, this episode has it all! Jim recounts his trip to Florida in the 1970s on the then-new Auto-Train, but half the adventure proved to be just getting to the station! Related Topics: history according to hediger […]
Tightening up before taking off
The crew of Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 4 attaches the spark arrester to the diamond stack before the day’s run in the early 1970s. Check out more Cass and West Virginia coverage in the August 2013 issue of Trains magazine. Photo by J.J. Young Jr. […]
NYC steam in Ohio
Watch films of New York Central 4-8-4 Niagaras and 4-8-2 Mohawks (plus a few 4-6-4 Hudsons) in action, excerpted from the DVD program Niagaras & Mohawks, produced by Sunday River Productions. […]
History According to Hediger: Fantrip on the Wabash
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s into the Way-Back Machine for this episode of History According to Hediger. In 1959 Jim was part of a fantrip on the Wabash RR, put on by the Michigan Railroad Club, and he shares many great pictures from the event in this […]
History According to Hediger: Fantrip on the Wabash
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s into the Way-Back Machine for this episode of History According to Hediger. In 1959 Jim was part of a fantrip on the Wabash RR, put on by the Michigan Railroad Club, and he shares many great pictures from the event in this […]
Cass Scenic before it was a state park
Shay No. 4 of the Cass, Greenbrier, Cheat and Bald Knob Scenic Railroad backs between switchbacks on the railroad in transition from logging railroad to tourist line. Today this is the Cass Scenic Railroad, and it celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2013. Check out more Cass and West Virginia coverage in the August 2013 […]
EMD’s Plant 3 at Cleveland, Ohio
Read about EMD’s Plant 3 at Cleveland, Ohio, in “Not Built at La Grange,” an article from Classic Trains Special Edition No. 4, Diesel Victory (2006). Download the article by clicking on the underlined PDF below. […]
