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Diagram of CN's Stratford, Ontario, steam shop
James A. Brown 05/10/2006
Layout of CN's last, and biggest, steam locomotive shop.
Bound Brook, N.J., March 17, 1976
 07/22/2005
Union Pacific across Sherman Hill
 02/13/2002
Kalmbach Publishing Co. offers book from its "Golden Years of Railroading" series
Stranded streamliner
John Kelly 01/10/2002
Fifty years ago, an intense winter storm trapped 226 people aboard the City of San Francisco in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The history of Baltimore & Ohio's Shepherd Branch
Mike Schaller 12/14/2001
Lake Michigan carferries
John Kelly  09/06/2001
They were a unique form of transportation that carried automobiles and railroad cars across Lake Michigan
Summer tours and western travel
John Kelly 07/24/2001
American railroads played an active role in developing America's national parks, and tapped into the country's burgeoning conservation movement and vacation travel market.
Amtrak's beginnings
John Kelly 06/05/2001
Half the passenger trains in the U.S. made their final runs on May 1, 1971, Amtrak's first day of operation.
Amtrak trains on May 1, 1971
 05/30/2001
Selling the service
John Kelly 04/05/2001
A look at memorable railroad slogans and heralds through the years
Last call to dinner
John Kelly  02/21/2001
When "fast" food was synonymous with luxury
Railroad electrification proposals
 01/23/2001
A series of maps show U.S. railroad electrification at its zenith in 1939, and the ambitious proposals for electrification in the post-War era.
Legendary railroaders
Bill Schafer 01/09/2001
Ten individuals who transformed 20th century railroading
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