Train Chasing Through the Decades
The Railroads have been America’s backbone for centuries, and will be for many more years to come. But when railroads began to advance and phase out steam, people started chasing steam trains on the rare excursions they would go on. Train chasing was a way for people to go out and record that these coal burning behemoths still rode the rails even today.
Union Pacific 4014 and 844 in Ogden, Utah for the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad, May 2019
Top left: Southern 4501 in Chattanooga, TN, October 2018
Top right: Shay 5 and Frisco 1630 doubleheading in Union, IL, September, 2019
Middle right: Union Pacific 4014 in a snowstorm in Lawrence, KS, November, 2019
Bottom: Southern Pacific Daylight 4449 in St. Cloud, MN, October 2009
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