SECOND QUARTER 2025: This issue features “Memories — Mostly Good” (Part One: Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri) by Carl Graves, presenting photos and stories of his Midwest railfanning adventures in the 1970s and 1980s, covering Missouri Pacific, Santa Fe, Frisco, and others, with a nice bit of Kansas City metro coverage included. “No Drone Zone” is a photo essay of elevated shots in the era before drones. Mike Bednar’s latest installment of life on the railroad is titled “Small but Mighty: The Story of Lehigh Valley 119,” with stories spotlighting more than two decades of service performed by this very dependable EMD SW1 diesel switcher. All this and more in the Second Quarter 2025 issue of Trains & Railroads of the Past!
Railfanning Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri
The first part in a series recalling memories of railfan adventures in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, between 1971 and 1990.
Small, But Mighty: Lehigh Valley 119
The story of Lehigh Valley 119, a postwar EMD SW1 diesel switcher that worked locals and yard jobs across the system.
No Drone Zone
Celebrate the ingenuity of railfans who found a way to position their camera more than six feet above track level before the invention of drones.
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.
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