A baggageman loads express and LCL aboard a combine on a mixed train on the Canadian Pacific (Quebec Central) at Vallee Junction, Quebec, in May 1959. Jim Shaughnessy photo […]
Small-town station ritual
Train Topic: History
31 years of Classic Toy Trains covers!
Take a trip down memory lane by re-visting some of our favorite covers from the past. […]
Dan Dover, associate editor of locomotive magazine, dies NEWSWIRE
Dan Dover, associate editor of Extra 2200 South, The Locomotive Newsmagazine, and railfan photographer, died from a heart attack on Sept. 5, 2017. He was 64. In 1961 Jerry Pinkepank founded Extra 2200 South (the name comes from Jerry’s street address, according to Don Dover, who succeeded Pinkepank as editor.) It was dedicated to covering […]
Open-hearth light show: Benwood at night
A steel mill at night, like this one in the Pittsburgh area, was an unforgettable sight. Baltimore & Ohio At night the atmosphere in many railroad yards was completely different than it is during the daytime. Although few railroaders would admit it, there were scenes that pleased both the eye and the psyche: The colors […]
Swift refrigerator cars
A mix of older wood reefers and new steel cars mingle on the cleanout and ready tracks at Swift’s Sioux City (Iowa) plant in 1954. A lone car in the old yellow scheme stands out among a sea of cars in the red 1950 paint scheme. George Berkstresser photo […]
“All aboard — and that’s an order!”
Newly inducted soldiers at Maryland’s Fort George G. Meade are lined up to board a Baltimore & Ohio troop train in May 1953. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Twenty-four hours at Supai Summit
On May 23, 1996, Santa Fe train P-CHLA1-21, a 5,338-ton, 7,133-foot train, at Supai Summit in northern Arizona. John C. Lucas Have you read Fred W. Frailey’s October 2017 “Commentary,” “24 hours at Supai Summit?” He spills all of the details of a 1996 visit to Kaibab National Forest 4 miles east of Williams, Ariz., […]
‘Selling Sunshine: The Florida Trains’ to premiere Oct. 13 in Winter Park NEWSWIRE
WINTER PARK, Fla. — A video production telling the story of Florida’s historic trains will premiere at Mead Botanical Garden in Winter Park at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 13. The one-hour documentary, Selling Sunshine: Florida Trains, is produced by Rich Luckin of Luckin Productions in conjunction with Kalmbach Publishing’s Trains Magazine and Pete Hansen. The […]
Seaboard Coast Line in Florida
Watch video clips of Seaboard Coast Line passenger and freight trains in Florida from the Herron Rail Video program Classic Florida Rails, Volume 1. […]
Seaboard Coast Line in Florida
Watch video clips of Seaboard Coast Line passenger and freight trains in Florida from the Herron Rail Video program Classic Florida Rails, Volume 1. […]
Former Smithsonian rail curator William Withuhn dies NEWSWIRE
Withuhn in his Washington office. Smithsonian Institution BURSON, Calif. – Any account of railroading in the past four decades would be incomplete without including the formidable contributions of William L. Withuhn, whose work as a historian, museum professional, journalist, author, shortline executive, preservationist, and engineering consultant is without precedent. He is best known for his […]
Santa Fe train 76 and 17 tons of sand
Santa Fe PA No. 61, whose long nose may have saved its crew 14 years later, in 1951 flies green flags on the point of First 24, the Grand Canyon, at Caliente, Calif. Stan Kistler On December 22, 1965, I was the engineer on Santa Fe Railway Los Angeles–San Diego train 76, one of the […]
