Cover Story: Conrail Lives!
By Fred W. Frailey
How it serves two masters in three big cities, while staying mostly out of sight
The Ghosts of Railroading
By Alexander B. Craghead
Check out a few relics of railroads that the Grim Reaper missed along the Pacific Northwest landscape
Map of the Month: Missouri Pacific Tons and Facilities, 1956
By Matt Van Hattem and Bill Metzger
See how traffic moved across MP’s 11,000-mile system
The Last Logger, Eh?
By Leo de Groot
One Canadian short line still hauls logs through the lush mountains and rainforests of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island
That Darn Rabbit
By Jim Wrinn
On Norfolk Southern’s mountainous Murphy Branch, train crews never know what may pop out of the underbrush
Night on Ballard Terminal
By Robert W. Scott
A short line prowls a neighborhood’s streets with a 72-year-old SW1
When the Boss Needs Something to Eat
By Michael E. McGinley
On the SP, a hi-rail and boxes of chicken replaced an office car and a lavish dinner
By Fred W. Frailey
How it serves two masters in three big cities, while staying mostly out of sight
The Ghosts of Railroading
By Alexander B. Craghead
Check out a few relics of railroads that the Grim Reaper missed along the Pacific Northwest landscape
Map of the Month: Missouri Pacific Tons and Facilities, 1956
By Matt Van Hattem and Bill Metzger
See how traffic moved across MP’s 11,000-mile system
The Last Logger, Eh?
By Leo de Groot
One Canadian short line still hauls logs through the lush mountains and rainforests of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island
That Darn Rabbit
By Jim Wrinn
On Norfolk Southern’s mountainous Murphy Branch, train crews never know what may pop out of the underbrush
Night on Ballard Terminal
By Robert W. Scott
A short line prowls a neighborhood’s streets with a 72-year-old SW1
When the Boss Needs Something to Eat
By Michael E. McGinley
On the SP, a hi-rail and boxes of chicken replaced an office car and a lavish dinner