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Oct 21-23, 2023 - Central Missouri Depots: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. BNSF 5370 West was our first train at the bridge. The railroad originally incorporated as the St. Louis & Keokuk Railroad on February 16, 1857. The Civil War and various depressions and recessions prevented its actual construction until... Read More>>

Oct 21-23, 2023 - East Home to Columbia: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Norfolk Southern 3633 West at Wellsville. The Calhan Depot, 704 Fourth Street, was initially built and owned by the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railroad, a separate, but associated company of the Chicago, Rock Island and... Read More>>

Jan 11, 2024 - Amtrak Historical Society™: After more than 20 years of being inactive, the website of the Amtrak Historical Society™ has just been updated. The primary purpose of the Society was to preserve the history of Amtrak and to establish its place in the archives of U.S. railroading. The Society was founded in... Read More>>

Jan 7, 2024 - Episode #65: Mid-Continent Railway Museum: Join the Midwest Rail Rangers for a visit to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin. The museum consists of static displays as well as a 7-mile round trip ride aboard preserved railroad cars. Trains leave from... Click Here To View the Program>>

Sep 4, 2023 - A Great Train Journey - Chapter 6: Report & Photos by Robin Bowers. NRHS 2023 Annual Convention in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Today started as days everlastingly have started with the sun rising up from the Atlantic Ocean here in the deep south. The weather was going to be a repeat of the... Read More>>

Sep 3, 2023 - A Great Train Journey - Chapter 5: Report & Photos by Robin Bowers. NRHS 2023 Annual Convention in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Brightline and Lighthouse. Today started early with the commencement of the 2023 convention field trips. I went downstairs to the Spotted Stag Gastropub for a breakfast of pancakes then later walked to the hotel's north entrance and joined the queue for our bus ride to West Palm Beach and Brightline's Running Repair Facility tour. Buses were schedule to start boarding at 8:00am and I was on the second one, leaving around 8:20am. Our trio of buses arrived at the maintenance facility near 10:00am but there was nobody to welcome us so we sat and waited to... Read More>>

Sep 2, 2023 - A Great Train Journey - Chapter 4: Report & Photos by Robin Bowers. NRHS 2023 Annual Convention in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Seeing Miami on the Metro. Today we are going to Miami to ride their Metro line. Chris and I were up early for today's adventure and skipped breakfast at the hotel as it was... Read More>>

Sep 1, 2023 - A Great Train Journey - Chapter 3: Report & Photos by Robin Bowers. NRHS 2023 Annual Convention in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Riding Tri-Rail end-to-end, welcoming Silver Meteor. This morning I was up and made it to The Spotted Stag in the lobby for breakfast around 8:00am. While eating my... Read More>>

Aug 31, 2023 - A Great Train Journey - Chapter 2: Report & Photos by Robin Bowers. NRHS 2023 Annual Convention in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Train watching. This morning I slept in late after a long day yesterday and went down to lobby to see about getting breakfast only to learn that the... Read More>>

Aug 30, 2023 - A Great Train Journey - Prologue: Report & Photos by Robin Bowers. NRHS 2023 Annual Convention in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Today begins a long-distance trip across this great country from sea to shining sea. My travel companions will be my former travel partner on... Read More>>

Dec 6, 2023 - Christmas in Our New House: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. May you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. You probably remember that Elizabeth and I moved to Columbia, Missouri in the second half of the year, to be more centrally-located in the country. We would like to share our home and its decorations this Christmas season... Read More>>

Oct 20, 2023 - Dak Dillon's Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad Photo Charter Day Two: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Rio Grande 168 will pull a mixed consist for the first time on the Cumbres & Toltec. You won't want to miss this unique opportunity! The train will be dated to the World War I era on the DRG&W... Read More>>

Oct 19, 2023 - Dak Dillon's Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad Photo Charter Day One: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. We will celebrate the Mudhen's 120th birthday with a throwback to the 1950's and 168's 140th birthday with a mixed train for the first time ever on a charter. Rio Grande 463 will feature... Read More>>

Oct 16, 2023 - Tuesday Charter Train on the Durango and Silverton Railroad: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Elizabeth and I arose and following our Internet duties, walked over to the Elevated Coffee Company for breakfast as this was the end of the season and no restaurants were open for breakfast. After that, we... Read More>>

Oct 15, 2023 - Monday Charter Train on the Durango and Silverton: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. In commemoration of our cherished K-28 locomotives turning 100 years old, the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is pleased to offer a very rare and unique opportunity to experience an... Read More>>

Oct 13-15, 2023 - To Durango: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. In May, Elizabeth and I decided to participate in the two-day photo charter in October, then in July, Dak Dillon announced his two-day photo charter on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad the same week. With the opportunity to once again ride these... Read More>>

Dec 3, 2023 5pmPT/6pmMT/7pmCT/8pmET - Episode #64: Christmas Special: Join the Midwest Rail Rangers for our 2023 Christmas Special Program. For our fourth annual Christmas Virtual program, we take you aboard the CTA Holiday Train. If you are... Click Here To View the Program>>

Oct 4-7, 2023 - Our House in Columbia and Area Exploration: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Elizabeth and I arrived at our new home in Columbia and here are some photographs before our belongings were delivered. After a good breakfast at the hotel, we came home to find the Allied Van Lines truck in front of... Read More>>

Oct 1-3, 2023 - Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad Trip and the Journey to Columbia: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Colorado Pacific 1923 on a grain train at Boone, Colorado. Colorado Pacific Railroad is a rail line that runs from Towner, Colorado to NA Junction, east of Pueblo. It was purchased by... Read More>>

Nov 5, 2023 5pmPT/6pmMT/7pmCT/8pmET - Episode #63: Cardinal from Chicago to Washington, DC It is time to hit the rails again for another Rail Rangers on the Road program on an Amtrak long-distance train. After covering most of the western routes during previous onboard educational programs, join Robert and Kandace Tabern for a ride on... Click Here To View the Program>>

Sep 29-30, 2023 - Starting Our Move East To Missouri With A Stop at Soldier Summit: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Move day was upon us! We were eagerly anticipating moving from a one-bedroom apartment in Santa Ana, California to a three-bedroom house in Columbia, Missouri. After Allied Van... Read More>>

Sep 15, 2023 - Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad's Santa Fe 3415 Charter: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. The railroad was founded in 1993 as a heritage railway, dedicated to preserving the legacy of the railroad industry in Kansas by highlighting the inter-connectedness of railroads, the people, and the land in... Read More>>

Sep 11-14, 2023 - Columbia, Missouri and Kansas Depots: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Sedalia station built in 1872. Sedalia station, also known as the Katy Depot, was designed by New York architect Bradford Gilbert. It is two-and-a-half stories and was built in the... Read More>>

Sep 10, 2023 - Kansas City Streetcar and Missouri Depots: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Chicago and Alton Independence staton was built in 1879. Independence was the start of the Oregon Trail this town that was the frontier, a place as far as steamboat and rail could come, the place that the pioneers came to but from... Read More>>

Sep 9, 2023 - Iowa and Missouri Depots: Report & Photos by Chris Guenzler. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific West Chester station which has been relocated to Greiner Farms in Keota. Next we proceeded to Oskaloosa for more than we planned. The Oskaloosa Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific station was built in 1888 on the... Read More>>

Sep 24, 2023 - Tesla 1,000-mile round trip to ride the Virginia and Truckee Railway: Photos & Text by Carl Morrison. Headquartered in Virginia City, Nevada, the Virginia and Truckee (V&T) Railroad is one of the most famous short lines in the history of the United States, so much so that it uses the service mark 'The Queen of Short Lines'. The railroad operated until 1950 and then was dormant for more than... Read More>>

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