One of Boston’s oldest historic lines, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Fitchburg/South Acton Line between Boston and Fitchburg (built in 1845) is undergoing some major changes, with new station facilities, more double track, new equipment, and a 5-mile extension of service to Wachusett. Trains magazine brings you all the details in its December 2013 issue. Photographer […]
Magazine: Trains Magazine
Norfolk Southern’s Rat Hole
Join us for an interview with two experts on the tunnel district of the Southern Railway line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga, Tenn. Learn more about the abandoned tunnels in the woods of Kentucky. Find out just how difficult it is to see these relics of the steam era. […]
Association of Tourist Railroads & Railway Museums presents first awards NEWSWIRE
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – At its annual conference in Riverside on Oct. 19, the Association of Tourist Railroads & Railway Museums presented its first annual awards. The Significant Achievement Award went to the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society in Cloverdale, British Columbia. In the past year the Society built and relocated to a new carbarn, completed […]
Model Railroader, October 2013
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Trains, October 2013
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Drew’s Trackside Adventures, Episode 9 – Tower A2 in Chicago
In part 2 of Drew’s trip to Chicago, he visits two towers along Metra’s former Milwaukee Road lines – A5 and A2. In this video, Drew gives you a close-up look inside the towers, and you get to meet the people who run these busy railroad junction points. […]
A minor adjustment, please
On May 29, 1961, engineer Walter Good tightens the spark arrestor on Cass Shay No. 1 after the engine started a brush fire. The railroad was in transition at the time from logging railroad to tourist attraction. Check out more Cass and West Virginia coverage in the August 2013 issue of Trains magazine. Photo by John P. Killoran […]
Southern Railway No. 630 to pull last Norfolk Southern main line excursions for 2013 in November (with video) NEWSWIRE
Southern No. 630 on an excursion at Barber Junction, N.C., on June 16, 2012. Jonathan Myers CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 2-8-0, No. 630, will take to the main line again in November with excursions on Norfolk Southern track in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Tickets go on sale next […]
Perspective play
Three Fort Worth & Western Railroad locomotives line up in an accidental perspective shot at Cresson, Texas, on May 30, 2013. Photo by Steve Sweeney […]
Historic Union Pacific Big Boy photos
FULL SCREEN Jim Shaughnessy The front half of Big Boy No. 4005 forms a wall of steel above a hostler at the Laramie, Wyo., engine terminal in August 1957. FULL SCREEN Jim Shaughnessy Battling up Sherman Hill, Big Boy No. 4011 exits the north tunnel at Hermosa, Wyo., with an eastbound freight in August 1957. […]
Richard Steinheimer’s Cajon Pass
Still the greatest show on earth: What’s changed on Cajon Pass since Trains magazine published Richard Steinheimer’s “Cajon Pass Revisited” in September 1974? Just about everything! Except the drama. In Locomotive 2013, authors David Styffe and Greg McDonnell look back at the classic Steinheimer photos and revisit Cajon today, as exciting a place as ever […]
Model Railroader, September 2013
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