Jim Scribbins

"Some railroads had strong personalities. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific was one of those. It was adventuresome: It built a line from the Missouri River to Puget Sound between two well-established rivals, and it entrusted operations over more than a third of that distance to locomotives barely out of the experimental stage. It answered the challenge of the Bulington's Twin Zephyrs with steam, reviving an antique wheel arrangement in the...