Trains September 2014

Heritage on parade every day
By Jim Wrinn
Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, Amtrak, Pan Am, and Iowa Interstate have made lasting impressions

Map of the Month: Pennsylvania's Steel City gateway
By Bill Metzger
Your guide to the Pennsy's main line into Pittsburgh, mapping decades of rail history

Persistent paint scheme
By George W. Hamlin
Who would have thought, in 1969, we'd be seeing locomotives in the New Haven's McGinnis colors in 2013

Where nature smiles
By Tom Danneman
If the scenery on the rest of the route was as beautiful as this spot near Trout Creek, Mont., I'd be smiling for more than 300 miles

Reaping whats sown
By David Honan
A state agency, a short line, and its customers partner to save an endangered branch line and grow an important new shipping resource

The houses railroads built
By Elfrieda Abbe
Railroad barons and their Gilded Age mansions

In My Own Words: Railroads as a test of character
By Peter Cox
A Canadian National brakeman tells about working passenger trains in the 1960s