Table of Contents Railroad Magazines Railfan Guides Tourist Shortlines, Museums, and Historical Societies Rail History Rail Passenger Service Corporate Other Sites Links to sites not related to railroads can be found in my Bookmarks. Read my disclaimer. "I like the late night sound of the train, clunking down the tracks, through the distant air the scream of its whistle changing pitches as it passes from one somewhere to another who-knows-where. It makes me feel like a boy again." -- Wynton Marsalis "To anyone outside, a speeding train is a thunderbolt of driving rods, a hot hiss of steam, a blurred flash of coaches, a wall of movement and of noise, a shriek, a wail, and then just emptiness and absence, with a feeling of 'There goes everybody!' without knowing who anybody is... And all of a sudden the watcher feels the vastness and loneliness of America, and the nothingness of all those little lives hurled past upon the immensity of the continent. But if one is inside the train, everything is different." -- Thomas Wolfe

Railroad Magazines (return to top) Trains.com with Trains and Classic Trains magazines CTC Board Railroads Illustrated--new URL Railfan and Railroad Magazine Railpace Newsmagazine Eastern Railroad News Let's Talk Trains Internet Radio

Railfan Guides (return to top) An Article on Railfanning in the Age of Terrorism (and the related thread at Photo.net) November 15, 2002 audio story at NPR: Trouble for Trainspotters Frograil Railfan Locations and Self-guided Tours Ohio West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina Altoona and the Horseshoe Curve: Horseshoe Curve Chapter of NRHS with Railfan's Guide to Altoona Horseshow Curve by the Railroaders Heritage Corporation Railfanning the PRR: Altoona, PA Railfanning the PRR's West Slope Gallitzin Tunnels Park & Museum Ohio Railroad Page by Don Narris--"dedicated to Ohio railroads, past and present" Railroads of Ohio by Brian Minnich, with information about all the railroads in Ohio Northern West Virginia's Railroads by Matt Reese and Chris Strogen Phil's Railroading Page--the "Railfan's guide to CSX's Baltimore Division" B&O RR Photo Tours in and around Maryland by Steve Okonski Railfan Guide to Saluda Grade by Bob Loehne; gone? Saluda Grade by Robin Michael Springfield (Ohio) Railroads by Shawn Vermillion Allan Gartner's guide to the Clinchfield Railroad articles at Trains.com: Train-Watching Basics Railroad Radio Communications NSLakeDivisionRailfans forum on Yahoo!, dedicated to the Lake and Dearborn Divisions of the NS

Tourist Shortlines, Museums, and Historical Societies (return to top) Ashtabula, Carson, & Jefferson Railway, Ashtabula, Ohio B&O Railroad Museum & Willard Area Historical Society, Willard, Ohio Zanesville & Western Scenic Railroad, formerly the Buckeye Central Scenic RR Byesville Scenic Railway, Byesville, Ohio The Cincinnati Railroad Club SummeRail at Cincinnati Union Terminal--August 11, 2007 The Cincinnati Railway Company, Cincinnati, Ohio Connotton Valley Railway, Bedford, Ohio Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, northeast Ohio Dennison Railroad Museum, Dennison, Ohio Harrod Railroad Park, Harrod, Ohio The Hocking Valley Scenic Railroad, Nelsonville, Ohio Jefferson Depot Village, Jefferson, Ohio Lorain & West Virginia Railway, Wellington, Ohio Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, Bellevue, Ohio Midwest Railway Preservation Society, Cleveland, Ohio Minerva Scenic Railway, Minerva, Ohio Northern Ohio Railway Museum, Chippewa Lake, Ohio The Ohio Central Railroad Excursions page commercial rail site TrainFest 2004 July 30-Aug 1, 2004 Ohio Railway Museum, Worthington, Ohio Orville Railroad Heritage Society, Orville, Ohio Toledo, Lake Erie, & Western Railway, Waterville, Ohio STEAM Railroad Museum, Minerva, Ohio Trolleyville, USA, Olmstead, Ohio Turtle Creek & Lebanon Railway, part of The Cincinnati Railway Co.; Lebanon, Ohio Warther Carvings, Dover, Ohio The Bluegrass Railroad Museum, Versailles, Kentucky Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, Kentucky Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, Dillsboro & Bryson City, NC Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, Cumberland, Maryland The Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society and the Chessie Shop Collis P. Huntington RRHS The Chessie System Historical Society Norfolk Southern S Historical Society and Discussion Forum The official Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum page Wes Barris' Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Musuem page Mike Stutz's Database of Railroad Attractions at DenverRails.com RRHistorical.com--"Your First Stop for Railroad Historical Information" Chesapeake & Ohio 614 at Iron Horse Enterprises Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Nickel Plate 765 765.org an article at the Fort Wayne News Sentinel Cincinnati Railroad Club at Cincinnati Union Terminal The Railroad Model and Historical Society of Southeastern Ohio The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust -- Peppercorn class A1 Pacific steam locomotive UKSteam Infor, UK Railway Preservation Site Great Western Society, Bristol Group & Signal and Telegraph Project

Rail History (return to top) From The Lost Promise of the American Railroad by Mark Reutter: The impact of interstates would be little short of shattering. Between 1956 and 1969, a total of 28,800 miles of interstate highways were opened to traffic. In the same period, 59,400 miles of railroad were taken out of passenger service. General Motors, like many other manufacturers, bailed out of the passenger-train business in the 1950s, although it continued to make diesel freight locomotives at its plant in La Grange, Illinois. America's rail-passenger service dwindled from 2,500 intercity (noncommuter) trains operated in 1954 to fewer than 500 in 1969. By that time it was impossible to ride a train between Houston and Dallas or Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Gone was the South's first streamliner, the Rebel. Other trains that figured prominently in the great speed-up of the 1930s--the Chicago & North Western's 400's, the B·&·O's Royal Blue, the Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas, the Union Pacific's City of Portland, the New Haven's Comet--were excised from the timetable or combined with other trains. Cars built for the world-famous 20th Century Limited were sold to the Mexican National Railways, which ran them out of Guadalajara and Mexico City. The Lost Promise of the American Railroad by Mark Reutter -- gone (an archive is available here at archive.org) Streamliners--America's Lost Trains, an American Experience presentation by PBS The Pioneer Zephyr at the Museum of Science & Technology in Chicago The California Zephyr Virtual Museum Riding the Zephyr by Terry Hogan The Mark Twain Zephyr at NRMA The American Railroads: A Long and Storied History (american-rails.com) "Styled to sell"--an article at Trains.com about the men who designed the streamlined passenger trains of the '30s by John Kelly Ad*Access, with hundreds of railroad advertisements from 1944 to 1954 "I am afraid we ruined a lot of good railroad men in Galesburg, during the two days we ran the Zephyr back and forth through the Burlington switch yards, as our cameras recorded action violating all the safety first regulations they had learned in a lifetime. Our picture is very bad railroading but thrilling entertainment." -- Glendon Allvine, producer of The Silver Streak A Review of the 1934 RKO Radio Pictures Silver Streak by Bill Monson Art Deco posters from the Streamliner era are available at ArtDecoPosters.com TrainPostersFree.com -- beautiful b&w posters of steam-age locomotives Gary Schaal's Columbus Union Station page (new URL) Joseph Brennan's Abandoned Stations of NYC "Saluda" (html | pdf) by Frank Clodfelter from the November 1984 "Trains" magazine O. Winston Link August 3, 2000 audio story at NPR (RealAudio) February 2, 2000 Obituary at NPR (RealAudio) Rembembering O. Winston Link at NPR Link's Trains at NPR The Fading Giant: Bygone Train Sights and Sounds at NPR a retrospective at The Smithsonian Mark Plank's Unofficial Home Page of the T&OC

Rail Passenger Service (return to top) ...Congress will have to begin treating Amtrak, the nation's passenger railroad, as what it is: "an essential component of our national transportation system." -- Philadelphia Inquirer National Association of Railroad Passengers Midwest High Speed Rail, promoting high-speed passenger rail service in the midwest Keep the Trains Running at the Washington Post Back on Track at the Philadelphia Enquirer Deadly Hijackings May Turn More Attention to the Rails at the Philadelphia Enquirer Time to Reconsider High-Speed Rail at the Denver Post Trains Need Help, Too at the NY Times Switching Tracks to Meet Demand at the Baltimore Sun Face It, Rail Needs Subsidy at the LA Times

Corporate (return to top) The CSX Corporation Home Page The Norfolk Southern Corporation Home Page Amtrak's Station on the World Wide Web The Via Home Page The Union Pacific Railroad Home Page

Other Sites (return to top) Ohio Central 6325 Restoration Board RailwayStation.com--home of the US Railroad Map for Windows Steam in Ohio by Jason Johnson David Dupler's Railroad Page with photos of Chessie System and Conrail railroading in Athens during the '70s and '80s--new URL David Dupler's Hocking Valley Scenic Railroad Gallery--new URL Ohio Trains by Matt Mantell Chessie Photo Archives and CSX Photo Archives by Dean J. Heacock The Columbus Ohio Railroad Gallery--"original photos from the Central Ohio area" Ohio Existing Railroad Stations by Dan West--new URL Michigan Railroad Photos, Information, & Links Pennsylvania Existing Railroad Station by Dan West Michigan Passenger Stations by Lou Van Winkle The Owosso Michigan Railroad Page by Steve Schmidt The Lost Engines of Roanoke Rails USA--"All Rail All American Search Engine and Directory" by Greg Chadwick Railroad.net--forums for rail enthusiasts The RIP Track--photos from the collection of Darryl Van Nort Jerry's Railroad Photo Album The 1953 B&O Operations Manual, transcribed into HTML by Ed Hobbs. Cyberspace World Railroad Home Page by Daniel Dawdy John Campbell's RR_Links Home Page, which includes a large list of surviving cabooses Thoroughbred Home Page by Chris Toth; includes Train Number Groups TotalCSX CSX Railfan Magazine Railfan.net--"By Railfans for Railfans" RailPictures.net TrainWeb.com Motive Power News--railroad locomotive rosters RailServe--Internet Railroad Directory North American Railroad Frequencies as compiled by Jon Roma Dover Harbor--a restored heavyweight pullman passenger rail car Fallen Flag Railroad Photos--over 8000 photos Stan's Railpix--A Railroad Photo Gallery by Stan Feldman Norfolk Southern Photo Archive including NS Roster and radio freqs; by Jonathon Sharp RailHams E-Mail List Muskegon's Railroads by Kevin Wootton--the operations of CSX and Michigan Shore SteamWhistles.com--"The Voice of the Iron Horse" Suggested Photo Locations by others

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