FIRST QUARTER 2025: This issue features “Milwaukee Road Lines West Regrets” by Gordon Lloyd, Jr., illustrating heavy-duty mountain railroading with big electric power and some diesels, as well; “Pittsburgh: A City of Hills and Bridges” features PCC trolleys in Pittsburgh’s suburbs in the 1960s by Gale E. Treiber; “The Way it Was” offers memories of railfanning in the Northeast with classic photography and insightful text by Stephen A. Williams; plus Mike Bednar talks about keeping the crews fed with “The Railroad Runs on its Stomach.” All this and more in the 1st Quarter 2025 issue of Trains & Railroads of the Past!

The Way it Was: 1970s Northeast Railroading

The Way it Was: 1970s Northeast Railroading

There was a wonderful variety of railroad action throughout the greater New York Mertropolitan area in the 1970s, and some folks were trackside to capture it.


Milwaukee Road Lines West: Regrets

Milwaukee Road Lines West: Regrets

Chance visits to Milwaukee Lines West territory during family vacations led to an obsession to return to photograph the final years of electric operation.


Pittsburgh: A City of Hills and Bridges

Pittsburgh: A City of Hills and Bridges

Pittsburgh’s numerous suburban neighborhoods in the hills were connected to downtown by numerous Pittsburgh Railway Co. streetcar lines.


The Railroad Runs on its Stomach

The Railroad Runs on its Stomach

Working for Lehigh Valley Railroad in the 1970s, I learned that the railroaders who were well-fed were certainly happier, and probably better at performing their duties.


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