The Gateway Division NMRA donated $10,000 to the National Museum of Transportation for a cosmetic restoration of the historic Rock Island GM Aerotrain which is part of their collection....
The Harriman Dispatch Center is within an 1891 Union Pacific freight depot that was converted in the early 1990s to the dispatch center and administrative office housing around 800 employees. Union Pacific dispatchers work in a steel-reinforced concrete bunker within the building. The...
text and photos by Brad Joseph, MMR originally published in the Winter 1997 Caboose Kibitzer If any of you are like me, the recent cold weather has you daydreaming about springtime railfanning trips. Nice warm sunshine, beautiful scenery, and a good railroad adventure will certainly s...
The Last Granger Railroad text and photos by Brad Joseph, MMR originally published in the Caboose Kibitzer With the 1995 Mid-Continent Region Convention in Des Moines, Iowa, I had given some thought to spending some time on the Chicago & Northwestern mainline. All winter I looked ...