In this section, you will find articles taken from our monthly newsletter, the WestConn Manifest, photos and items of interest from the WestConn Chapter and the SoNo Switch Tower Museum.
John Garofalo Photo by T.J. Donahue Westbound Rio Grande freight approaches Tunnel 1 near Coal Creek Canyon, CO - 2/1974 Forty-eight years ago this month (original article - February 2022), Tom (T.J.) Donahue took a two-week break from his duties as operator at Penn Central’s Peck Tower in Bridgeport, CT to railfan in California. He traveled west by train. The trip was not made entirely on Amtrak. Tom stepped off in Denver, CO so he could ride the Rio Grande, which operate
