Fireless steam locomotives entertained a college student in Dayton

A Chicago freight-train crew finds out what happens when a 19-year-old asks, “Why not?”

The sign touts Kreamo Bread, but my memories are of orange South Shore cars, street-running, and a pocket-size coach yard

An adventurous 1956 trip from New York took on a surreal quality on the last leg, at Bangor, as my Maine Central local began its trip to “Callous”

Central Vermont 2-8-0s handled Navy nuclear-reactor components

Change comes to an Erie Railroad town in Ohio

Insights into a wandering Mogul and life on the two-footers

Memories of a rural Wabash station, and the day it had a big, unwelcome visitor

How a PRR engineer kept his word on Horseshoe Curve

The Santa Fe knew how to recover from a derailment

Kind railroaders introduced a machine-minded boy to the world of locomotives

An assignment in Texas broadened a Wisconsin soldier’s horizons

Of railfan rumors, rare Pennsy diesels, and youthful enthusiasm

A son remembers a special encounter with a Grand Trunk 4-8-4, and all that it stood for

How a humble PRR 4-6-0 earned a lasting place in a young railfan’s heart

A thrilling encounter with Milwaukee Road’s 100-mph steam-powered speedster

Old paperwork reveals a concern unique to the nation’s gambling mecca

A turntable derailment tied up the roundhouse—and provided a study in human behavior

Thanks to darkness, the bosses never knew that a boy was doing a man’s job

C&O proudly showed off its steam turbines, then cancelled their train and quietly scrapped them

A proud engine on a fast freight showed how steam went out in style on the CB&Q

Trips to the Railroad Capital in the 1930s and ’40s are fondly remembered today

When Dad was a Philadelphia motorman, “quality time” meant trolley rides

In changing from NYC’s Harlem Division to the New Haven, I learned the truth about no free lunch

Did Friday the 13th do in two Amtrak electrics as well as the D&H PA’s?

For a 12-year-old, genuine awe resulted in invitations up into two streamliners’ locomotive cabs

Streamlined Hudsons blazing through with the Hiawathas were only part of the show at a northern Illinois junction

Northern Alberta Railways’ humble varnish had a royal connection

A tiny depot and a bus filled in while Amtrak was changing stations

On the Rutland, as on all railroads, old nicknames die hard

For a boy on his first train ride, a humble mixed was like the Crescent Limited

N&W’s Pocahontas — and an era — pass

Mixing high speed with low drivers on the Canadian National

“The bark of those locomotives . . . was a sound I have never forgotten’’

Searching for SP, finding SP&S

A boyhood encounter with the dirty side of railroading

And why was she riding NY&LB train 719?

Thanks to Mom, Dad, and the New Haven

Recalling a Canadian Pacific kindness

A 1961 day of discovery in Waterloo, Iowa

Thoughts on changing land-use in Toronto

In 1966, not all the fun rides were at Ohio's Lake Erie amusement park

When Canadian National answered a teenager's prayers

Overshadowed by the Erie, little Susie-Q was an endearing, enduring presence