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Full steam ahead: New train guide hits all the stops
Published on Aug 15th, 2013
2 comments Can't get enough trains? With the foldable illustrated map, Rail USA: Museums and Trips, Eastern States, rail buffs have a guide of everything train from museums, steam train rides and historic sites...
What's that rail doing in the highway?
Published on Aug 1st, 2009
5 comments Travelers to the Outer Banks and other southern shores may have noticed a brand new set of railroad tracks lying in the median of Interstate 664 just south of the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-...
Snap o' the Day: Welded rail
Published on May 5th, 2009
1 comments Ben Bryant and Clifton Maxey of the Buckingham Branch Railroad prepare to weld two pieces of rail previously connected by bolted-on bars, shortly before 9am on Tuesday, May 5, near the intersection...
Track marks: These lines change lives
Published on May 30th, 2002
0 comments By Wesley Hottot It is an atypically warm spring afternoon on Water Street downtown. Noise hums from the C&O Restaurant in front of the old C&O line, now part of the CSX train empire. For...