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The North Carolina Transportation Museum’s celebration was filled with red, white, and blue Aphoto, they say, is worth 1,000 words. Harold A. Edmonson’s famous 1975 Trains Magazine photo of eight Bicentennial locomotives gathered at...
Color and black-and-white photos of Florida East Coast 4-8-2s at work on Mexico’s NdeM HENRY FLAGLER was John Rockefeller’s partner at Standard Oil a er the Civil War, and he made a fortune. In the early 1880s, Flagler visited St....
A 1980 road trip caught the Milwaukee Road and Rock Island, not to mention a ditch
As transmissions increasingly go digital, listening in on railroads isn’t what it used to be Are railroads going silent? If you are using a scanner to monitor railroad radio communications, you may have noticed a decline in voice...
A 30-minute stop gave a sailor returning from World War II just enough time to find trouble TUCUMCARI, N.M., UNION STATION has now stood for a century. Built by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway in 1926, the depot plays a role in the...
Railroads aim to move tank cars loaded with carbon dioxide to sequestration sites Railroads have made fortunes moving coal, grains, and cement. eir next coveted commodity may be the troublesome byproduct all three produce. It comes, quite...
CPKC’s annual Holiday Train brightens days, fills food pantries There’s nothing in railroading quite like the CPKC Holiday Train. Since its first run as the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train in 1999, it has raised more than $28 million and...
Jason Doering: When there’s no train crew, who runs to the problem on the main line? On Aug. 11, 2026, a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Railroad Administration’s two-person crew rule, which generally requires two crew members...
