Description
Railroading’s most difficult season is winter. From late fall to spring, railroads struggle to move their heavy tonnage trains through snow, ice, sleet, wind, rain, and freezing temperatures that are hard on the equipment as well as the railroaders themselves. This TRAINS Express PDF package highlights some of the experiences that railroads face in winter. Here’s the line-up of stories from the Trains magazine archive:
- “It Must Be Beautiful . . . All That Snow” By Kevin P. Keefe, Pages 42-43, December 1996
- “Railroad Reading: Plowing “Snirt” in Nebraska” By Paul S. Swanson, Pages 71-72, December 1997
- “Plowing into History” By Karl Zimmermann, Pages 44-51, May 1998
- “One Last Spin” By Tom Cerwin, Cover, pages 42-47, December 2007
- “Fifty Below at North Pole” By Art Chase, pages 48-55, December 2007
- “Rogers Pass in Winter” By Fred W. Frailey, Cover, pages 34-47, December 2008
- “Where the Rotaries Roll On” By Steve Glischinski, Cover, pages 24-33, December 2010
- “Spread Out” By Dick Dorn, Pages 46-51, December 2010
(60 pages, 10.3 MB)