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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
GREAT DAYS AHEAD" - By Robert S. McGonigal - The Burlington Route's optimism and innovation set the pace CONTRIBUTORS - Meet the crew of this Special Edition THE BEST TRAINS IN THE WORLD - By Joe welsh - For a golden decade after World War II, America's streamliners held center stage in the world of transportation EYES PROFIT - By Michael Zega - Advertising the dome car, far and away the most popular of the railroads' postwar passenger-service innovations "THE MOST GORGEOUS TRAIN . . ." . By Peter A. Hansen - When Northern Pacific took the plunge to modernize its North Coast Limited, it jumped into the deep end of the pool DR. HOOTER'S SLEEPY-HOLLOW SEATS - By Carl R. Byron - A Harvard professor and manufacturer Heywood-Wakefield combined to create the most widely used coach seat PHOTO SECTION - An all-color gallery with the Empire Builder, Blue Bird, Shasta Daylight, Capitol Limited, Phoebe Snow, and more WHEN CINERAMA RODE THE C.Z. - By David Lustig - The story behind how the famous California Zephyr starred in one of the first super-wide-screen movies THE FRUGAL APPROACH - By Kevin J. Holland - How economical railroadsa€Monon, Reading, Erie, Illinois Central, and the likea€"kept up with the Budds and Pullmans DINING UPSTAIRS - By Mike Schafer - GMs Train of Tomorrow, two Union Pacific City streamliners, and Santa Fe's El Capitan offered you meals on high CROWN JEWELS OF THEW NORTHEAST - By Joe welsh - Pennsylvania's 1952 re-equipping of the Congressional and Senator marked the peak of service on the busiest corridor FRONT ROW ON THE FUTURE - By Jim ScribUns - The ticket office in Milwaukee Road's hometown station was a great place to witness the streamliner revolution GLASS CITY GET'S IT'S STATION - By Geoffrey H. Doughty - Toledo's Central Union Terminal, decades in the making, was one of the last big-city depots to be built WHITE ELEPHANTS UNDER WIRES - By Mike Schafer - Illinois Terminal's three St. Louis Car Co. streamliners were an exercise in futility ENDING ON A HIGH NOTE - By KarlZimmermann - Six top observation-car designs graced the Broad-way Limited, 20th Century, Silver Meteor, Empire Builder, Hiawatha, and C.Z. "MODERN & STREAMLINED" - Granger road Minneapolis & St. Louis wrote one of the most unusual chapters to postwar passenger-train modernization
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