4th QUARTER 2024: This issue features “Union Pacific at Cheyenne, Wyoming” by Travis Douthit, with exciting UP action in the eastern part of the state, with double diesels, passenger extras that include a detour of the Rio Grande Zephyr through Wyoming and rare branchline action; “Steamtown in the 1960s” presents vintage photography by Bill Robie taken at Edaville and Pleasure Island Amusement Park, as well as very early Steamtown excursions; plus Mike Bednar covers old interlocking towers on the Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley, and Reading in “The Allentown Triangle.” All this and more in the 4th Quarter issue of Trains & Railroads of the Past!
Union Pacific in Cheyenne, Wyoming
For nearly a decade, I had the privilege of living within 125 yards of Union Pacific’s Overland Route in my hometown of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Steamtown in the 1960s
F. Nelson Blount used the money from his seafood processing business to help fund his private collection of steam locomotives that found a home on the Vermont-New Hampshire border.
The Allentown Triangle
It’s hard to believe that the city of Allentown, Pa., once had a rail system that supported the operation of four signal towers as late as 1968.
Horseshoe Curve to Gallitzin
A photo gallery of heavy mountain railroading on the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line around Horseshoe Curve.
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