TRAINS August 2008

Union Pacific vs. the Mudslide How a big railroad tackled a massive Oregon mudslide that took out its main line not once.
Martin E. Hansen


Boarders, But Never Bored
I watched the world of railroading evolve from teh porch of my grandparents' rooming house on the Louisville & Nashville.
Ron Flanary


Busiest Station in the World Shinjuku Station keeps 3.5 million people a day moving through Tokyo. And you thought your commute was hectic!
Scott Lothes


Map of the Month: Buffalo, N.Y., in 1942 Trains were drawn to Buffalo like iron filings to magnets. Here is the city at its most tangled, when 11 trunkline railroads and three short lines moved thousands of cars a day.
Bill Metzger


Dissecting a Railfan Was 1920s silent film star Fatty Arbuckle a railfan? You decide.
David Lustig


Railroad Reading Missed by a gnat's eyelash: Experience a near collision through the eyes of a railroad deputy special agent on a ride-along in Texas.
Tom Kline


Gallery Santa Fe's Barstow Yard, Canadian Pacific in the Rockies, the circus train crossing the Wabash River, Alcos on the Piedmont & Northern, two B39-8s bracket three B30-7s in Worcester, Mass.
Assorted photographers