Firecrown Trains Magazine January 2025

Tips, projects, and photographs designed to help readers improve layouts and keep in touch with the hobby.

FEATURES:

• CALIFORNIA’S HIGH-SPEED VISIONARY: Rod Diridon, Sr. has gone from trainman to having a passenger station named after him
• CONCRETE GIANTS: Four viaducts on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western are engineering
• THE ASTRODOME’S FORGOTTEN PASSENGER FLEET: The mystery of the Pullman sleeping car hotel that never was