Whiteout

Canadian National train M345 heads north at Rantoul, Ill., on the Chicago Subdivision after meeting a southbound in subzero temperatures and fierce blowing snow. Photo by Erik Coleman […]

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Into the night

  A train load of coal rolls the last mile from the mine in Wyoming to the Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan, Wis., at dusk on July 22, 2012. Photo by Rich Peters […]

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Crossroads

A westbound loaded CSX coal train approaches the diamonds in Deshler, Ohio, on June 14, 2014. The cross track is CSX’s Toledo to Cincinnati main line. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]

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Map of Glenita, Va., and environs

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Because of a production error with our Spring 2016 issue, the map that should have accompanied the article “Calamity at Glenita” — about a 1968 coal train derailment on the Southern Railway — was omitted from the magazine. Here is the map. […]

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Solutions for train storage

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1. Behind a raised Colorado railway, a magnificent 20′ train barn doubles as a street scene of local Leadville storefronts, circa 1890. All three pictured trains fit inside, along with spare rolling stock. Also notice the red running shed over the portal on Bob Ferrero’s Red Cliff Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Bob Ferrero 2. […]

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