Continuing their trek along the Columbia River Gorge, Charlie and Tom Danneman bounce from BNSF tracks to view trains on the Union Pacific main line. Follow along as the railroad action and the duo rise to new heights! […]
A single day trip to America’s Railroad Capital just isn’t enough to take in all of the trackside action the Windy City has to offer. So naturally, host Drew Halverson and his Crew made several return treks to great railfanning locations like Blue Island, Rondout, Roosevelt Road, and more! You won’t want to miss the […]
Come along as we visit the Reading & Northern and see its steam operations. Only from Trains Magazine! […]
Empty refrigerator cars race across the Union Pacific in Nebraska in the early ’50s. A UP conductor in Idaho talked his way out of a jam when his reefer train blocked a crossing, but got into trouble when he tried to enter the produce business himself. Linn H. Westcott Within any group, whether depicted in […]
Trains Magazine Assistant Editor Brian Schmidt takes you to Stevens Point, Wis., for a day of Canadian National freight action in October 2016. You’ll learn the best places in town to watch trains, and see unique motive power from CN, Illinois Central, and Wisconsin Central. Learn more about CN’s Chicago to Winnipeg corridor in the […]
Learn about Norfolk Southern’s gateway to Chicago – and some of its neighbors – in this exciting map! Find out how trains funnel around Lake Michigan to reach the Railroad Capital of North America. […]
Electric and diesel locomotives’ top speeds are governed by gear ratios and safe operations, like this Union Pacific westbound near Franklin Grove, Ill. Brian Schmidt Q What determines the theoretical top speed of a diesel locomotive? Is it the gear ratio? What other factors enter in? – Mike Pedersen, North Berwick, Maine A The maximum […]
Trains video contributor Kevin Gilliam takes us on a steam-and-smoke-filled look into one of North Carolina’s tourist gems: The Tweetsie Railroad. See what this narrow gauge railroad has to offer in the Blue Ridge Mountains, only from Trains! […]
Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 1513 pushes hard on the caboose of a 55-car freight climbing the Front Range of the Rockies where the line crosses Coal Creek. The date is March 14, 1942, and the lettering on the bridge shows that the line is still owned by the Denver & Salt Lake, which […]
The Skytop sleeper-observation car of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha, highlighted by plenty of windows and chrome trim, stands at Milwaukee early in the train’s Chicago–Tacoma run. Classic Trains coll. […]
A northbound Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee train leaves the interurban’s Shore Line route and joins the Skokie Valley route at North Chicago Junction, Ill., on July 18, 1955 — one week before cessation of passenger service on the Shore Line. Overhead is the Chicago & North Western’s Chicago–Waukegan–Milwaukee line. William D. Middleton photo […]
Two E8 diesels lead the Phoebe Snow, the maroon, gray, and yellow pride of the Lackawanna Railroad, westbound across the Delaware River at Slateford Junction, Pa., in the 1950s. S. K. Bolton photo […]
