New from Classic Trains, learn all about working on the frozen rails from the men who lived it! Don't miss 7 decades of the best stories on winter railroading.
People keep the lines open
Winter on the Rails
THE WINTER of ’36 • Division superintendent relates how the Milwaukee Road fought heavy snows in subzero cold
BATTLE OF THE SNOWFLAKES • The fight to keep lines open begins long before the first snowfall and grows more intense as winter storms approach
MR. JORDAN’S MARVELOUS MULTIDEXTEROUS MACHINE • In its realm, the Jordan spreader had no equal
NOT PRETTY IN PINK • An old, pink Delaware & Hudson Jordan spreader and a young assistant trainmaster plow through monstrous snow and cold
BATTLING BLIZZARDS ON THE BIG G • All the excitement, hard work, and long hours had not gone out with the exit of steam
THE LESLIE BROTHERS & THEIR GIANT SNOWBLOWER • The story of the ultimate steam-powered shovel
SNOWY SIDE-BY-SIDE
THE PART OF RAILROADING I COULD DO WITHOUT • A difficult winter trip on the Milwaukee Road’s “Southwestern”
VANISHING SNOWPLOWS • As southwestern Ontario branch lines have disappeared, so has the need to clear them of snow
DRAGONS & BROOMS • How Conrail battles snow in Buffalo
WHITE-OUT AT WAYNE AVENUE
FINAL WINTER FOR THE NARROW GAUGE • A Peace Corps assignment in northern New Mexico put a photographer in position to record American steam’s last great battle against snow
A MIDNIGHT THROUGH FROZEN VERMONT • With diesels on the way and the temperature at 20 below zero, the all-weather cab of a 4-8-4 was the best place to be
SIX-WHEELER VS. SNOW • The mail must go through, so a Reading yard goat lent a hand to a frozen-up doodlebug in 1942
OF DISPATCHER ROSEY, A HOWLING SNOWSTORM, ALMOST-CORNFIELD-MEET • A 17-year-old Rock Island relief operator has a close call at Iowa Falls
THE WORST: COLORADO’S ROLLINS PASS
