Trains February 2009
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The Rail Splitter and the Railroads
Abraham Lincoln's vision helped determine what American railroading would become
By Peter A. Hansen
Map of the Month: Illinois Central Gulf, 1973
Tonnage, trackage, and signaling on the late-20th century incarnation of the railroad Lincoln championed in the 1800s
By Curtis W. Richard
Difference of Decades: Coal over the Missouri
Saved from abandonment in 1982, the Milwaukee Road line through Mobridge, S.D., now carries coal for BNSF
By Andy Cummings
They Really Did Build a New 4-6-2!
It cost $6 million and took 18 years, but the U.K. resurrected a lost mainline steam locomotive and has it running
By Adrian Brodie
Lonely Train Running
Driving for treasure along Canada's remote St. Lawrence north shore, we found a gem of a passenger train that only a select few may ride - and we weren't among them
By J. David Ingles
No More Steam Under Mount Shasta
How many steam locomotives spend an entire career on one railroad? McCloud River 2-6-2 did just that - until now
By Jim Wrinn
Railroad Reading
Two weddings and the Reading: Social commitments and railroad dedication don't mix for a new brakeman
By Bob Wise
Gallery
Ruby Canyon at night, Southern Pacific in San Jose, Calif., Norfolk Southern in Attica, Ind.; BNSF Railway in Grassey, Utah; Wisconsin & Southern in Janesville, Wis.; and the Slovenian Railways in the Alps
By Assorted photographers
Abraham Lincoln's vision helped determine what American railroading would become
By Peter A. Hansen
Map of the Month: Illinois Central Gulf, 1973
Tonnage, trackage, and signaling on the late-20th century incarnation of the railroad Lincoln championed in the 1800s
By Curtis W. Richard
Difference of Decades: Coal over the Missouri
Saved from abandonment in 1982, the Milwaukee Road line through Mobridge, S.D., now carries coal for BNSF
By Andy Cummings
They Really Did Build a New 4-6-2!
It cost $6 million and took 18 years, but the U.K. resurrected a lost mainline steam locomotive and has it running
By Adrian Brodie
Lonely Train Running
Driving for treasure along Canada's remote St. Lawrence north shore, we found a gem of a passenger train that only a select few may ride - and we weren't among them
By J. David Ingles
No More Steam Under Mount Shasta
How many steam locomotives spend an entire career on one railroad? McCloud River 2-6-2 did just that - until now
By Jim Wrinn
Railroad Reading
Two weddings and the Reading: Social commitments and railroad dedication don't mix for a new brakeman
By Bob Wise
Gallery
Ruby Canyon at night, Southern Pacific in San Jose, Calif., Norfolk Southern in Attica, Ind.; BNSF Railway in Grassey, Utah; Wisconsin & Southern in Janesville, Wis.; and the Slovenian Railways in the Alps
By Assorted photographers
