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Cross the continent and share the drama of “high iron” on Class I railroads like BNSF and Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific, while high-stepping regional roads like Florida Central and Green Mountain are featured, too. Rails still move people, as Amtrak and Florida’s Railrunner demonstrate, while classic steam is here on the Cumbres Toltec clearing Colorado snow. Railroading! includes commentary describing featured railroads, rolling stock, and 24 full-color photographs. All aboard! Trains and lines featured in the 2022 edition include: • Winding through the S-curve at Mormon Rocks in Cajon Pass, CA, BNSF Intermodal Stacks train S-ALTLBT1-21 makes its way from Alliance, TX, to Pier T at the Port of Long Beach, CA One of BNSF Railway’s ten 25th Anniversary engines, number 6179, a GE ES44AC, leads the 14,187-foot double-stack train heading to Long Beach, CA • Vermont Rail System’s Green Mountain Railroad Train 263 is rolling across the Cuttingsville Bridge near its namesake town in the Green Mountains of Vermont • Three UP coal trains cross Logan Hill, north of Bill, on June 23, 2018 • A pair of deer cross in front of the slowly moving COPR train approaching Prineville Junction, OR • A westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train climbing the grade out of Bluefield, crossing the truss bridge over Elkhorn Creek and U.S. Highway 52 at Maybeury, WV • Florida East Coast train 101 rolls past Sunbeam after departing Bowden Yard in Jacksonville • Florida Central Railroad CF7 locomotive number 50 leads a Florida Northern train of hopper cars south of Ocala, FL • Rail Runner is the 97-mile commuter route that operates in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas of New Mexico • Crossing curved Anderson Creek Trestle near Boston Bar, British Columbia, a CN coal train heads west through the Fraser Canyon • CN 3067, a GE ET44AC, leads an eastbound manifest freight through Solomon, Alberta, just east of Jasper National Park • Grenada Railway engines 8146 and 3833, a pair of 3,000 h.