Meet the People Who Keep Vintage Rail Cars Rolling Across America

Photo caption: Hudson River Rail Excursions runs a classic car between New York and Albany to make the vintage rail experience more accessible. Photo courtesy: United Rail Historical Society of New Jersey. Article by Justin Franz. Atlas Obscura – July 6, 2023.

About two dozen classic carriages around the country offer time travel by train.

Just after dawn, Amtrak’s Empire Builder passenger train pulls into the station at Whitefish, Montana, as it does every day on its cross-country journey from Seattle to Chicago. The train usually consists of two locomotives and a string of utilitarian passenger cars. But on this morning, two of the cars, directly behind the locomotives, disrupt that familiar conformity. […]

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