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El Capitan’s 50-year legacy

Classic Trains

HeadEnd • A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

CSX starts heritage unit program

Electric for URHS

F unit heads west

BNSF GE for Silvis

Reviews

VISIT US ON THE WEB

Heaviest Hudson: Chesapeake & Ohio’s L2a

Fairbanks-Morse H12-44TS diesel

KALMBACH HOBBY STORE

Bombardier LRC diesel locomotives

Fast Mail • Letters from readers on our Summer 2023 issue

The promise of Silvis • A shop from steam’s past is also its future

The morning rush

Vermont time machine • A VISIT TO ISLAND POND AND THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY

The Boy on the Bridge

It’s a fine pickle you’ve gotten us into! • ADVENTURES OF A ROCK ISLAND YARD CLERK

Inside Kelly Yard

Greetings from BEAUTIFUL MURPHY DOME • THERE WEREN’T MANY TRAINS IN ALASKA, BUT I MANAGED TO FIND AT LEAST A FEW WHEN I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE

A college kid & the old Omaha • CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN AROUND EAU CLAIRE, WIS., OFFERED PLENTY OF DISTRACTIONS

The rest of the Lincoln Football Special story

Mikados for France • U.S.-built 2-8-2s saved the day for postwar French National Railways

Santa Fe El Capitan of 1956 • The “also ran” train was far from it

EL CAPITAN TIMELINE

Utility in Chicago

Sunday wakeup call • A quiet afternoon at a Los Angeles-area yard turns red hot

Big Four speedway • A Buick was no match for a Hudson

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St. Louis-Granite City suburban service

The last steam from Brush Street Station