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Come on, And Take a Free Ride on the Lawrenceville Branch

March 23, 2026 Railfanning.org Digital Library
When a locomotive engineer on the Lawrenceville Branch Railroad reported for duty on an April morning in 1881, he found quite a surprise.

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Birmingham, Alabama, Railfanning Before Dinner

March 22, 2026 Railfanning.org Digital Library
What’s better than a nice dinner in Birmingham, Alabama?

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Passenger Trains on the Western & Atlantic? Experts Break Down Running Passenger Trains on Class I Mainlines

March 13, 2026 Railfanning.org Digital Library
Talk of restoring passenger rail service on the Georgia-owned Western & Atlantic Railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tennessee, often runs into the same refrain: It would be expensive to “upgrade the line.”

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A Postcard View of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel Beneath the Hudson River

November 4, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library
The Pennsylvania Railroad tunneled beneath the Hudson River between 1904 and 1908.

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107 Years Ago: Malbone Street Wreck, New York City Subway’s Deadliest Crash

November 1, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library
On Nov. 1, 1918, 107 years ago today, a speeding Brooklyn Rapid Transit train derailed on a sharp curve beneath Willink Plaza in Flatbush, killing roughly 100 people.

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Funny Grave: The Civil War Soldier’s Mule Mystery

October 31, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library
John C. Moore was the first mayor of Smyrna, Georgia. Here is a funny story about him.

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Postcard: Pennsylvania Railroad’s Exchange Place

October 28, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library
The earliest incarnation of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Exchange Place station in Jersey City, the then-terminus of its rail line, opened in 1834.

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New York City’s First Subway Opened on Oct. 27, 1904, Forever Reshaping the Big Apple

October 27, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library
On Oct. 27, 1904, New York City changed forever when its first subway opened from City Hall to 145th Street.

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Postcards From the Past: The Read House Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee

October 24, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library
John T. Read opened the popular Read House hotel in 1872 on the site of the former Crutchfield House next to Chattanooga’s Union Depot in the years after the Civil War.

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Pennsylvania Station: ‘A Monument to the Ingenuity of the Present Day Architects and Engineers’

October 14, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library
The famed Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan was noted for its glass dome.

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