Rio Grande: Heart of the Rockies LABOR DAY 2025 The City of New Orleans

The City of New Orleans • by Dave Pedersen — Illinois Central’s homemade streamliner

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Olmsted features 75 color photos of Nickel Plate steam-powered freights taken during 1957 and 1958 at Calumet Yard in Chicago

East Chicago (IN)

From main lines to short lines

Rio Grande: Heart of the Rockies LABOR DAY 2025 The City of New OrleansRio Grande Heart of the Rockies looks at the dramatic influence of railroad builder David H. Moffat on the Denver & Rio Grande Western. In Volume I of this series, one of the watershed events for the young D&RG was the conversion of the main lines from narrow gauge to standard gauge, initiated in 1890 during Moffat's presidency. Following his departure from the D&RG the following year, Moffat intensified the pursuit of his great dreamconstructing a