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“People on a jet have only been on a trip; people on a train have been on a journey.” “There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.”
— Ray Bradbury
— Edna St. Vincent Millay [1892-1950]
Railroad  Links
May 10th is National Train Day in USA [est. 2008]
Federal Railroad Administration of U.S.D.O.T.
Assn. of American Railroads [merged 1934]
TF's Railroad Forum
Mass Transit info at Working Minds / Solutions
Progressive Railroading Magazine
Hoovers Railroad Industry Fact Sheet
Wes Barris's Steam Locomotives website
Rails USA - rail site directory
Steam Locomotive [dot] info website & Lineside Legacy column
Narrow Gauge Preservation Foundation [est. 2000]
Amherst [MA] Railway Society
Railcar Management, Inc. [aka RMI; est 1979]
RailConnect services division of RMI
Classic Trains Magazine |
Railfan & Railroad Magazine |
Trains Magazine |
Arizona Rail Passenger Assn.
Train Riders Assn. of California
Rail Passenger Alliance of California
RAILS: New Mexico's Passenger Rail Action Group [est. 1998]
Railroad  Art
railroad-themed artwork at A-Train.com
railroad art by Rod Aszman of San Luis Obispo, CA
browse books by photographer O. Winston Link
O. Winston Link photo posters at AllPosters [dot] com
Don Ingwersen Railroad renderings train art
railroad posters at AllPosters.com
trains posters at AllPosters.com
"Railroad Sunset" [1929] click for larger view 37"x27" poster from Amazon |       |
 
"Compartment C, Car 293" [1938] click for larger view |
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"Chair Car" [1965] click for larger view |
other art by Edward Hopper [1882-1967]
Railroad  Museums
Association of Railway Museums [est. 1961]
National Railroad Museum [est. 1956] in Green Bay, WI
list of railroad museums & tourist lines at Wikipedia
California Railroad Museum [est. 1976] in Sacramento, CA
Railtown 1887 State Historic Park [est. 1992]
in Jamestown, CA
Lomita [CA] Railroad Museum [est. 1966]
Grizzly Flats Railroad [est. 1938]: official website • O.E.R.M. webpages
South Coast Railroad Museum in Goleta, CA
Santa Maria Valley [CA] Railway Historical Museum
San Luis Obispo [CA] Railroad Museum
Laws Railroad Museum near Bishop, CA
Golden Gate Railroad Museum in Fremont, CA
Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA
Western American Railroad Museum in Barstow, CA
San Francisco [CA] Cable Car Museum [est. 1974]
Market Street Railway preservation group in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco [CA] Railway Museum [est. 2006]
'Roots of Motive Power' Railroad History Museum in Willits, CA
Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in La Mesa & Campo, CA
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North Alabama Railroad Museum in Huntsville, AL
Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, south of Birmingham, AL
Arizona Railway Museum [est. 1983] in Chandler, AZ
Southern Arizona Transportation Museum in Tucson, AZ
Nevada County Depot [built 1911] & Museum [est. 1978] in Prescott, Arkansas
Georgetown Loop [est. 1884] Historic Mining & Railroad Park in Colorado
Colorado Railroad Museum [est. 1959] in Golden, CO
Connecticut Trolley Museum [est. 1940] in East Windsor, CT
Danbury [CT] Railway Museum [built 1903; est. 1994]
Gold Coast Railroad Museum [est. 1957] in Miami, FL
Southeast Railroad Museum [est. 1970] in Duluth, (Atlanta) GA
Midwest Central Railroad [est. 1960] in Mount Pleasant, IA
Illinois Railway Museum [est. 1941] in Union, IL
Indiana Transportation Museum, north of Indianapolis, IN
Whitewater Valley Railroad operating railroad museum [est. 1972], east of Indianapolis, IN
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum [est. 1953] in Baltimore, MD
The McComb Mississippi Railroad Museum [built 1901; est. 2003]
Water Valley [MS] Casey Jones Railroad Museum [est. 1985]
Frisco Railroad Museum in Springfield, MO
Nevada State Railroad Museum [est. 1980] in Carson City, NV
Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum - Carson City, NV
Nevada State Railroad Museum [est. 1996] in Boulder City, NV
Toy Train Depot [built 1898 in Torrance, NM; moved in 1974] in Alamogordo, NM
Clovis [NM] Depot Model Train Museum
New Mexico Rail Road & Transportation Museum in Las Cruces, NM
North Carolina Transportation Museum, between Winston-Salem & Charlotte
Oyster Bay [NY] Railroad Museum
North Carolina Transportation Museum [est. 1977]
Yukon, Oklahoma Railroad Museum
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
South Carolina Railroad Museum [est. 1973] near Columbia, SC
Casey Jones Home & Museum [est. 1965] in Jackson, TN
Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Knoxville, TN
Eastern Shore Railroad Museum [est. 1988] in Parksley, VA
Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA
Canadian Museum of Rail Travel [est. 1976] in Cranbrook, BC
British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre Museum [est. 1965]
Hillcrest Lumber Co. Climax-geared locomotive #9 [built 1915] at B.C. Forest Discovery Centre
National Railway Museum [est. 1968] in York, U.K.
National Railway Museum NE Branch [est. 2004] in Shildon, County Durham, U.K.
Class  I  Railroads
Trains Magazine's Class I Railroad Directory
Class I Railroad entry at Wikipedia
SteelRoads web application site of the Class I Railroads
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The seven Class I railroads of America are a monopoly: their combined sales revenue is 91% of all rail freight traffic. The railroad industry took in over $40 billion in 2004.
Union Pacific Railroad entry at Wikipedia
Norfolk Southern Railroad entry at Wikipedia
C.S.X. Transportation entry at Wikipedia
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway entry at Wikipedia AT&SF concessionaire Harvey House Restaurants [1875-1968]
Kansas City Southern Railway entry at Wikipedia
wholly-owned subsidiary Kansas City Southern de México
Soo Line Railroad entry at Wikipedia
Grand Trunk Railway entry at Wikipedia
... and in Canada:
Canadian National Railway entry at Wikipedia
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Major  Lines  Merged  Into  Above  Class I  Railroads
Burlington Northern Railroad [1970-1995]
created in 1970 by the merger of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad,
Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
Burlington Northern Railroad entry at Wikipedia
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
est. 1848, merged into Burlington Northern in 1970
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad entry at Wikipedia
Frisco Lines {St. Louis & San Francisco Railway}
[est. 1876; merged into Burlington Northern 1980]
Frisco Lines/SL&SF entry at Wikipedia
Great Northern Railway
[esy. 1889; merged into Burlington Northern 1960]
Great Northern Railway entry at Wikipedia
Northern Pacific Railway
[est. 1864; merged into Burlington Northern 1960]
Northern Pacific Railway entry at Wikipedia
Santa Fe [merged into B.N.S.F. 1995]
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway entry at Wikipedia
  | "All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of The Southwest, 1890s to 1930s" [2005] by Victoria E. Dye Univ NM Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $16.47 |
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"Santa Fe: The Chief Way" [2001] by Robert Strein, John Vaughan & C. Fenton Richards Jr. New Mexico Magazine 10x10 pb [9/2001] out of print/used New Mexico Magazine 10¼x10¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.37 |
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
[est. 1905; merged into Burlington Northern 1970]
Spokane, Portland & Seattle entry at Wikipedia
Wisconsin Central Railway
[est. 1871; wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of Canadian National since 2001
C.N. official Wisconsin Central history
Wisconsin Central Railway entry at Wikipedia
U.S.A. Shortline  Railroads
American Short Line & Regional Railroad Database
Trains Magazine's Regional & Short Line Railroad Directory
U.P. Railroad's Short Line Railroad Directory
list of railroad museums & tourist lines at Wikipedia
Norfolk Southern Railroad directory of shortlines (by state)
Tourist Railways Information Center
T.R.A.In. - Tourist Railway Assn., Inc.
U.S.A.  Shortline  Railroads Operating  Today
list of active narrow-gauge tourist railroads
The Blanchard Company - marketing & management
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. [est. 1899] - operates 47 shortlines worldwide
Rail America - operates 47 shortlines in U.S. & Canada [est. 1986]
LT's unofficial Rail America fansite
Pinsly Railroad Co. of FL, AR, TX & MA [est. 1938]
American Orient Express™ rail tours [1997]
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad [est. 1854]
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway Technical & Historical Society
Terminal Railroad Association [est. 1889] of St Louis, Missouri
Terminal Railroad Assn. of St. Louis Historical & Technical Society
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"American Shortline Railway Guide: A Directory of Today's Diverse Small & Medium-Size Railroads - Facts, Figures & Locomotive Rosters For Over 500 Short Lines" [1996] by Edward A. Lewis Kalmbach 5th edition pb [5/96] for $16.47 |
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"Tourist Trains 2006: 41st Annual Guide To Tourist Railroads & Museums" [2006] from Empire State Railway Museum Kalmbach 8½x5½ pb [3/2006] for $13.45 |
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Light Iron Digest Magazine [bi-monthly; est. 1999]
'For The Narrow Gauge, Industrial & Shortline Enthusiast' magazine official website direct subscription: 6 issues/year for $26.00 |
Foreign Heritage Railroads
West Somerset Railway [est. 1862, reopened 1976] in western England
Trolleys,  Interurban  & Light  Rail  Lines
Edwards Rail Cars Mfg. Co. [est. 1921; re-est. 1998] in Montgomery, AL
Phoenix [AZ] Trolley Museum [est. 1975]
Valley Metro Light Rail System {opening 12/2008} in Phoenix, AZ
Old Pueblo Trolley [est. 1983] operating transit museum in Tucson, AZ
Californians for High-Speed Trains Coalition
C.H.S.T.C. 's Proposition 1-A won 53% to 47% in the Nov 2008 election
Nevada County [CA] Traction Company [est. 1988]
Bay Area Electric Railroad Assn. [est. 1946] Western Railway Museum in Suisun, CA
San Diego [CA] Trolley [est. 1981]
Bay Area Rapid Transit [launched 1972] of California
JT's Cable Car fansite
historic Waterfront Red Car Trolley Line [re-opened July 2003] in San Pedro, CA
Exposition Light Rail Transit Line in West Los Angeles, CA
  Fort Collins [CO] Municipal Railway streetcar line [1907-1951; restored 1985]
Connecticut Trolley Museum [est. 1940] in East Windsor, CT
New England Railroad {proposed line from Maine to Montreal, PQ}
  | "Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation" [2009] by Paul Weyrich & William S. Lind A collection of studies that supports a conservative view that light rail, commuter rail, and intercity rail are good for America Reconnecting America 9x8 pb [2009] out of print/used |
Railroad  Film  Festival
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Railroads  in  Fiction
two public domain railroad novels by Arthur Griffiths [1838-1908]
"The Passenger From Calais" [1905]
Qontro Classic Books 11x8½ pb [7/2010] for $9.99
IndyPublish 9x6 hardcover [4/2007] for $19.99
free online text at Project Gutenberg
"The Rome Express" [1907]
General Books 9x6 pb [3/2010] for $6.59
Kessinger Publng 7x10 hardcover [5/2010] for $26.56
free online text at Project Gutenberg
  | "The U.P. Trail: A Novel" [1918 bestseller] by Zane Grey [1872-1939]
1st World Library 8½x5½ pb [9/2004] for $20.95 Kessinger 9x6 pb [5/2004] for $23.07 Pocket pb [4/91] out of print/used Classic Books hardcover [5/2000] for $49.99 Amereon hardcover [6/40] for $30.95 Blackstone UNABR audio [8/97] 10 tapes for $69.95 |
  | "Atlas Shrugged" [1957 classic] by Ayn Rand [1905-82] John Galt leads an intellectual strike to 'stop the engine of the world', while Dagny Taggart fights bureaucrats and mobs of looters to keep the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad alive. Signet pb [8/96] for $8.99 Plume 9x6 pb [8/99] for $13.60 Dutton 35th Anniv 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/92] out of print/used Signet 35th Anniv pb [3/92] out of print/used Highbridge ABR audio CD [6/2000] for $23.07 |
  | "Plugged Nickel" mystery novel [1988] by Robert Campbell Speeding thru Nebraska on the California Zephyr, someone pulls the emergency cord and railroad detective Jake Hatch is thrown from the train, landing on a severed corpse. Pocket mass pb [3/88] out of print/many, many used Pocket Book Club hardcover [1988] out of print/used |
  | "Red Cent" mystery novel [1989] by Robert Campbell A sniper puts a bullet thru the window of a fast-moving diner car, and a man is killed. Railroad detective Jake Hatch needs to find out whether the shooting was random or the victim was intended and the killer a crack shot. Pocket mass pb [2/91] out of print/used Pocket mass pb [1/89] out of print/many used |
  | "Short Lines: A Collection of Classic American Railroad Stories" [14 stories; 1996] Edited by Rob Johnson B&N Books pb [5/2000] out of print/used St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [3/96] out of print/used |
  | "Parallel Lies" [2001] by Ridley Pearson Ex-cop Peter Tyler is hired to investigate sabotage on the Northern Union Railroad. Hyperion mass pb [7/2002] for $7.99 Hyperion 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2001] out of print/many used Brilliance ABR audio CD [6/2004] for $16.99 |
  | "The Christmas Train" [2002] by David Baldacci
Warner mass pb [11/2004] for $5.99 Warner 8¾x5¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $10.36 Warner UNABR audio CD [11/2004] for $10.19 |
  | "On The Wrong Track: A Holmes On The Range Mystery" [2007] by Steve Hockensmith Tired of the cowboy life, the Amlingmeyer brothers take a job as guards for the Pacific Express, and soon are contending with a gang of outlaws, a seductive suffragette, a shady Chinaman, a drunken railroad detective, the King of The Hoboes – and the severed head of the baggage man. Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2008] for $11.01 St. Martin's Minotaur 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $23.95 Tantor Media UNABR audio CD [3/2007] for $26.59 |
  | "Pelican Road: A Novel" [2008] by Howard Bahr On Christmas Eve in 1940, snow drifts down on the rail line between Meridian, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana as freight 4512 speeds south toward the northbound Silver Star passenger train. MacAdam/Cage Publrs 9x6½ hardcover [6/2008] for $16.50 |
  | "Super: A Novel" [2010] by Jim Lehrer  ![]() A trip on the famous Santa Fe Super Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles (in 1956) involves a murdered railroad passenger agent, with possible links to Clark Gable and to the deaths of Harry Truman and a Hollywood movie producer. Random House pb [DUE April 2011] for $10.20 Random House 8¼x5½ hardcover [4/2010] for $16.50 |
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