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Engineers, firemen, conductors, tower operators, gandy dancers, and others recall the railroad life
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When things went bump on the B&O one night, it was providential that no passengers were aboard
By Bob Withers
Published: February 1, 2012 |
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A Santa Fe man’s timepiece, once an essential tool, is a keepsake from a long career
By Jack O. Elwood
Published: January 3, 2012 |
 | Coal engines were more work, but oil-fired hogs had their own pitfalls
By Barry Anderson
Published: July 15, 2011 |
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Going to the dogs on the Rock Island
By W. L. Gwyer
Published: January 4, 2011 |
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An unnerving experience on an SP 2-10-2
By Barry Anderson
Published: November 30, 2010 |
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My dream job on the Erie at this busy Ohio tower couldn’t last, as things turned out, but I’d succumbed to the romance of the high iron
By W. L. Gwyer
Published: November 2, 2010 |
From stuffed shirt to mussed shirt
By George Rieves
Published: October 6, 2010 |
On-the-job training for an Alton roundhouse mechanic’s helper
By Gil Reid
Published: October 6, 2010 |
A Santa Fe passenger train dodges an errant Rock Island Mikado
By Doyle Jackson
Published: September 1, 2001 |
Incident on a Southern Pacific 2-10-2
By William E Cannonball McGee
Published: September 1, 2001 |
Erie Mining taconite trains, as seen from a Great Lakes ore boat
By Eric Hirsimaki
Published: September 1, 2001 |
Everyday was an adventure for the son of an operator during World War II
By Charles W. Lindenberg
Published: June 1, 2001 |
A black day for steam on the Chicago & North Western
By John A. Grams
Published: December 1, 2000 |
A C&O engineer's offer makes an impression on a 4-year-old boy
By Alexander J. Stoops Jr
Published: December 1, 2000 |
Thundering PRR 2-10-0's helped ore trains over the Eastern Continental Divide
By William Hoehn
Published: December 1, 2000 |
A creative solution to a problem in the Belt Railway of Chicago's diesel shop
By Vernon L. Smith
Published: December 1, 2000 |
Summer jobs for a teenager on NYC's Lake Shore main line across Indiana
By Ken Allsen
Published: December 1, 2000 |
A Nickel Plate man recalls his first pay trip—with his dad as engineer
By Donald E. Daily
Published: September 1, 2000 |
In timetable-and train-order days, if an engineer was late, it meant a collision
By William E Cannonball McGee
Published: September 1, 2000 |
A hogger finds home where he first knew heaven
By John A. Swearingen
Published: September 1, 2000 |
A passenger engineer recalls some embarrassing incidents with an office car
By Doug Riddell
Published: September 1, 2000 |
When NYC crews shuffled Pullmans, you needed to hang onto your berth
By Theodore Shrady
Published: September 1, 2000 |
A lonely siding in Colorado was no place for the faint of heart
By Michael J. McLaughlin
Published: June 1, 2000 |
Old heads and greenhorns alike loved SP's easy-steaming 4-10-2's
By T B Thompson
Published: June 1, 2000 |
On a Rock Island 2-8-2, the head brakie asked: "Is the s.o.b. gonna blow up?"
By Robert J Finnegan
Published: June 1, 2000 |
90 mph on a Norfolk & Western 4-8-4
By Ed King
Published: March 1, 2000 |
Legendary orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy has a close shave on the PRR
By Robert Henderson as told to Charles H Geletzke Jr
Published: March 1, 2000 |
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