Submerged Ambitions (PDF*)
Why Cairo, Illinois, failed to become a great rail center.
By Fred Ash

Fast Trains and Faster (PDF*)
The golden age of highballing in the 1890s and its revival with the coming of streamliners.
By William D. Middleton and
Mark Reutter

Speed Over a Century (PDF*)
How Amtrak stacks up.
By Mark Reutter

Fact or Fable? (PDF*)
NYC locomotive 999’s speed record is little documented.
By Tommy Meehan

Giants and Dwarfs (PDF*)
Steam’s last years in Colorado and Wyoming through the camera-eye of Richard Kindig.
By James L. Ehernberger

*Note: PDFs are of the first page or spread for each article.

Lumbering Mikes (PDF*)
A McCloud River Railroad engineer takes a fond look at Baldwin’s 90-ton Mikados.
By Raymond A. Piltz

Loggers and Short Lines (PDF*)
A roster of 90-ton Baldwin Mikes used in North America
By Raymond A. Piltz, Henry E. Bender, and Joseph A. Strapac
Bibliographic Supplement (PDF*)

The Great American
Railway of Asia (PDF*)
Coveted by E. H. Harriman and built to American standards by Imperial Japan, the South Manchuria Railway introduced modern railroading to the Orient.
By William D. Middleton

Hot Times on the High Iron (PDF*)
Engineer Joseph Santucci tells stories about his world and wins a world-wide audience on the web.
By Dan Cupper
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