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Second in a series DENVER — When Amtrak operates its long-distance trains daily, train and engine crews make regular turns back to their home base after a mandated minimum of 12 hours’ rest. On the routes of the triweekly Sunset Limited and Cardinal, longer stays — perhaps days longer — have been necessary, adding extra […]
FULL SCREEN Kevin Burkholder Commemorative GP40-2W No. 311 passes the old depot in Wallingford, Vt., in fresh snowfall on Feb. 13, 2014. FULL SCREEN Scott A. Hartley Ogdensburg Bridge & Port Authority SW900 No. 14 is seen at the Norfolk, N.Y., enginehouse on Oct. 9, 2013. FULL SCREEN Kevin Burkholder Vermont Railway GP38-2 No. 202 […]
Scenic Bear Mountain is located about 45 miles north of New York City along the Hudson River. It offers a host of vantage points along the CSX Transportation “River Line” and Metro-North Hudson Line. Locations between Cold Spring and Peekskill, including Bear Mountain Bridge, provide public access to watch and photograph trains. The area is […]
The nation’s 10th largest city, San Jose has been flirting with the 1 million population mark for several years. Within the city and surrounding Santa Clara County are 74 passenger rail stations, 62 of them on the Valley Transportation Authority’s light rail system. The remainder serve one of three passenger carriers: Amtrak, Caltrain, and the […]
Chatsworth is a neighborhood of 41,000 people, located in the San Fernando Valley northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It has traditionally been a favorite trainwatching spot in the region, situated on the former Southern Pacific “Coast Line” between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A now-abandoned SP branch from Burbank once ran nearby. The city is, […]
Salisbury, N.C., located in the central Piedmont of the Tar Heel state, is well-known in the South for constant rail activity. The former Southern Railway Washington, D.C.-Atlanta main line, now a key Norfolk Southern mainline route, rolls through downtown Salisbury with 25-30 trains every 24 hours. The majority of Charlotte District mainline trains are manifests, […]
In Redding, Calif., California Highway 273 (old Hwy. 99) lets you follow the action on Union Pacific Railroad’s north-south I-5 corridor. The former Southern Pacific main line through the area is now part of UP’s Valley Subdivision, from Dunsmuir at milepost 321.4 to East Roseville at milepost 106.4. Photographers will love the climate: Redding has […]
Glendale, Ohio, incorporated in 1855, is a north suburb of Cincinnati. The community is located along CSX Transportation’s Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision, which also hosts trains from Amtrak and Norfolk Southern. The Cincinnati & Hamilton Railroad opened a line between its namesake Ohio cities in 1848. The railroad, renamed the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, leased the […]
A location to safely watch trains has opened near Washington, D.C. Arlington County recently opened Long Bridge Park adjacent to control point RO on CSX’s RF&P Subdivision. Arlington is at the south end of CSX’s Long Bridge across the Potomac River. This double track bridge was opened in 1904. The name “RO” comes from the […]
Nestled among hillside dairy farms, corn fields, and rock quarries, Byron Hill, Wis., sees more than 20 trains per day on Canadian National’s busy Waukesha Subdivision. Positioned halfway between Fond du Lac and Lomira, Wis., the main line is paralleled by two vital roadways, Highways 175 and 41. Branching off of those main arteries are […]
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, […]
Classic Trains is a quarterly magazine celebrating the “golden years of railroading.” Each issue covers the North American railroad scene from the 1920s to the late 1970s with extraordinary photographs and compelling writing. Giant steam locomotives, colorful streamliners, down-home local trains, great passenger terminals, recollections of railroaders and train-watchers . . . they’re all in […]
