Winter and Holiday Rails Special

Read more about the subjects covered in the December 2008 issue of Trains, a special issue about winter and holiday railroading, in this TRAINS Express pdf package. You’ll find out more about Canadian Pacific in the mountains, including a 1953 Wallace Abbey piece. You will learn more about Baltimore & Ohio’s main line and get a contemporary view of CSX’s operations on the former Clinchfield Railroad. Here’s the line-up of eight stories from the Trains magazine archive:


- “David Moffat’s Dreams Came True” By Forest Crossen, Pages 28-36, January 1942


- “CPR’s Spiral Tunnels” By George A. Gloff, Pages 22-23, April 1952


- “Under the Continental Divide” By Wallace W. Abbey, Pages 60-61, October 1953


- “Who Else but B&O?” By David P. Morgan, Pages 48-49, January 1969


- “Rogers Pass Reverie” By Doug Harrop, Pages 32-40, November 1985


- “Men Against Mountains” By Ron Flanary, Pages 58-64 and 68-71, October 2001


- “Tough Terrain & Easy Grades” By Mark W. Hemphill, Pages 65-67, October 2001


- “Map of the Month: Trunk Line Profiles,” Profiles of the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Erie main lines between New York City and Chicago, Pages 48-49, February 2002


(40 pages, 5.7 MB)