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!

Current Issue

4th Quarter 2024
Issue No. 40


Features

Union Pacific in Cheyenne, Wyoming

by Travis Douthit — Backyard View to Union Pacific’s Overland Route.

Steamtown in the 1960s

by Bill Robie — F. Nelson Blount and Steamtown.

The Allentown Triangle

by Mike Bednar — R Tower, J Tower and WK Tower


 DEPARTMENTS

Antiques RailRoadshow — Legacy paint scheme sightings

Car Corner — Unique freight and passenger cars

E.O.T. — A humorous or unusual railroad photograph

Quiz — Test your knowledge

Write-of-Way — Our readers respond!


 PHOTO DEPARTMENTS

Close, But No Cigar! — A photograph that is almost perfect, except for…

Links to the Past — Moments long gone, live on through the lens of a camera

Odds & Endcabs — These are not your typical cookie-cutter locomotives and rolling stock

People — Lively additions to spice up rail photos

Sign Language — Interesting signage found along the right of way

The Scenic Route — Beautiful scenes from around the railroad world

Time Machine — Timeless views of your favorite railroads from long ago or yesterday


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