I kinda enjoyed it....

[Murphy Siding]

     .....And no 3/4 wedge shot of a locomotive that looks like the last 99 3/4 wedge shots of the same model, etc...

[ouibejamn]

I enjoyed it too. It was the first article I read. I was especially interested in the long abandoned section between Toy and Fernley, Nevada. While driving I-80 on many occasions I noticed an old railroad grade that I thought went to some abandoned, not that it was part of the original transcontinental railroad. Considering construction methods (hand labor) and those little tea pot locomotives in 1869, I would have assumed they would have gone via the present and less challenging route.

[Ulrich]

I enjoyed it also.. reminded me of my fan trip back in 1993 when I rode behind the UP challenger from Denver to Laramie. Quite the experience that was.

[Murphy Siding]

....."Following the Golden Spike article in the June, 2015 Trains Magazine.  I often think about what kinds of magzine article I enjoy reading.  This one had all the right ingredients: trains(obviously), history, maps, and lots of photos- in glorious black & white.  I could delve into an article like this, and my mind would be 1000 miles away from thoughts that seem to require so much of my limited brainpower of late.

     Thanks to Chris (CopCarSS), I've come to appreciate black and white railroad photography more.  It gives things something of an older look.  Reading that article, and looking at the photos- especially #15 of the old gas station and cannibalized pumps is almost like going back in time for me.  It makes me want to hop in my car and follow an old rail line, looking for landscapes in black and white.

      Please, give me more articles like this.  I kinda enjoyed it.