Double Your Pleasure – Two Trains West
February 18, 2011

In November, 2010, I enjoyed covering not one, but two trains. They were both long-distance steam excursions, involving two locomotives on two railroads with interesting connections to each other. The Story of the Two Trains The two trains intersected at Golden Spike Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a fitting place for things to intersect. The original Golden ...
Trip Report – The SS Badger
February 9, 2011

Lake Michigan has a surface area of 22,400 square miles. This large body of water separating the East from a large chunk of the Midwest has always posed a challenge to railroads, which were forced to go around it. In the early days of rail transportation, freight was unloaded from railcars onto boats, shipped across ...





