Starting in 2005, I spent several years living in Utah while I was in college. One evening, as I was surfing the internet, I came across a...

Railroad rail comes in all types and sizes. The basic design is the same, but there are different weights, which have different loading ca...

There are two passenger depots in Seward, AK, but the original depot is no longer used by the Alaska Railroad. The original depot was buil...

Taking the Engineer program has, if nothing else, made me much more aware of certain things, even as a Conductor. It has also changed my a...

A few days ago, we talked about how the air brakes on trains came to be.  To many people, they are complicated systems with air flowing ba...

First of all, I apologize for missing this post on Wednesday.  I was in Forsyth, and normally I would have written a post before leaving, ...

Today I am going to stray from the ordinary Wednesday posts a bit and talk about Amtrak equipment.  As some of you may have noticed, yeste...

Interlockings are an important part of railroad operations.  They control areas where tracks come together.  They are also interesting areas...

Railroad timetables are very important documents.  In many ways, they are the Bible of a division or subdivision.  They contain loads of va...