Trains & Railroads of the Past Second Quarter 2024 February Perspective • Benefits of Being

Perspective • Benefits of Being a ‘Rubber Gauger’/ Scott Thornton

The Shay Locomotive - An Illustrated History is the most complete

— by Adrian Garner

The Observation Car — Culture

It was the boring of the Moffat Tunnel beneath the Continental Divide in 1927 that encouraged the D&RGW to cast its lot with the D&SL in developing both local and transcontinental traffic

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