Classic Trains

Class act: Conrail in the black

The gambit to save railroading in the Northeast and why it succeeded

Ed Burkhardt remembers

Reflections on his 65-year career in railroading and still working at it

EMPIRE BUILDER RETROSPECTIVE

British railroading after 1945

A system worn out by World War II has seen radical change

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Seaboard Air Line E7 No. 3038 holds a passenger train at the Hamlet, N.C., station.

Chasing Steam Out West

One of the deans of Northwest photography tries to stay ahead of the diesel

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Santa Fe GP60M No. 142 on an intermodal overtakes another train at Ash Hill, Calif., in January 1991.