Every year railfans make a pilgrimage to the most unlikely of “hot spots” — Stockton, California, in the heart of California’s Central Valley. The occasion is Winterail, a photography and multimedia show that celebrated its 35th anniversary this year. The drive to and from Winterail is half the fun of going — the other half is...
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East of Palm Springs lies the Salton Sea, a beautiful but desolate place that developers once touted as the next great water resort. While those dreams were swept away, Union Pacific’s Yuma Subdivision hosts up to 35 trains a day through this searing desert terrain. A new article in Trains magazine examines the shared history of the sea and its...
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It’s long overdue, but the website has finally been given a beautiful facelift with the help of web designer Jim Bunte. I’ll be fine-tuning the content for a month or two . . . be sure to bookmark the home page and check back for news of rail and roadside related projects, plus blog posts and pictures! Photo: Endeavour’s final flight, seen...
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Welcome to the online home for Elrond’s coffee-table book Route 66 Railway. The book sold out in 2011, but you can click here to read about R66R and view sample pages. To contact the book’s publisher — the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation (LARHF) — visit http://www.larhf.org/. A handful of signed copies were recently...
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The sun dips below a heavy cloud layer in the Mojave Desert, silhouetting old and new signals on the former Santa Fe west of Barstow, Cal., in November 2011.
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