Some issues of the PSRHS monthly newsletter have included an expanded note or story on historic or current topics of interest to local or regional railroading. This page lists those topics along with the newsletter issue in which they appeared. To view the article, click on the date for that newsletter issue.
Newsletter Articles on Topics of Historic or Current Interest
Jan 2019 UP’s Aerowedge Container
Feb 2019 Problems with CA High Speed Rail Project (link)
Mar 2019 Golden Spike 150th Activities
Apr 2019 Golden Spike 150th Activities
May 2019 Golden Spike 150th Celebration
Tribute to Jack Duncan
Cape Horn Overlook Plaque Update
Jun 2019 Peter Hills’ Model RR Op Sessions — Railroad Operations Beside the Rails
Jul 2019 Amtrak Non-Powered “Cabbage” Cars (control cab/baggage car)
Aug 2019 New Home Needed for Roseville Roundhouse Model RR Club
Oct 2019 Red Mountain Snowshed Fire Lookout
Jun 2020 UP Steam Program Update
Jul 2020 Excursion to the Summit — 1867
Aug 2020 Kyle Wyatt’s History of Central Pacific Coach #12
Sep 2020 Central Pacific Coach #12 Saved
Oct 2020 Amtrak Long Distance Trains Change to Tri-Weekly
Nov 2020 CPRR/SP Tea Trains
Feb 2021 Donner Memories of a Signal Maintainer’s Son
Mar 2021 Steel & Creosote – Elford Wall
Apr 2021 Past PSRHS Activities & Presentations (or What’s On the psrhs.org Web Site)
May 2021 Signal Maintainer – Elford Wall
Jun 2021 Tribute to Tony Hesch
Jul 2021 New Amtrak-Siemens Contract
Aug 2021 Donner Pass Tunnels Article (link)
Oct 2021 Autorack Derailment at Gold Run
Nov 2021 Track Laborer During WWII
Jan 2022 A Harrowing Experience – Roundhouse Parking
Feb 2022 SP’s Staff System Explained for Early Single-Track Control
Mar 2022 Tongue in Cheek Railroad Humor
Apr 2022 150-Year-Old Locomotive Reno Returns to Virginia City
Jun 2022 Great Western Steamup
NCNG #5 Steams Again
Geological Field Trip on the Amador Central Railroad
Jul 2022 Amtrak Orders Fifty More National Network Locomotives
Sept 2022 Interview with a Retired Freight RR Conductor
Oct 2022 End of Train Devices
Nov 2022 A Train Ride Gone Bad
Jan 2023 Howe Truss Bridge
Feb 2023 Saving Sacramento Trolleys
Mar 2023 Weather Woes for Amtrak
Apr 2023 Railroad Land Grants – A Sharp Deal for Uncle Sam
May 2023 Siemens Venture Trainsets for Via Rail
Jun 2023 Auburn’s Street Railways
Jul 2023 Disappearing Bedroom on S.P.
Aug 2023 Clipper Gap Trestles
Sep 2023 Better Than Wagon Train but Still an Adventure
Oct 2023 Hal Wilmunder’s Antelope & Western RR Brochure
Nov 2023 SP’s Observation Platform at American
Feb 2024 A Signalman’s Story – Bill Fisher