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Off to Work They Go - Imagine how Montreal commuters felt in the 1950s riding to work in open-window cars behind CP Pacifies. By Robert S. McGonigal Cover Story: Electrics in the Diesel Age - Mainline railroad electrification was the bright new dawn that never came. By William D. Middleton Icebound Off Ludington - For railroaders who ran the Lake Michigan carferries, ice was their biggest enemy. By Robert S. McGonigal; painting by Russ Porter For Richard Solomon, Trains Have Come Full Circle - Sharp 1958 Kodachromes of diesels, steam, and traction have given way to the electronic imaging of today. By John Gruber Denting New York Central's last steam bastion - When a Fairbanks-Morse demonstrator diesel conquered the Indiana Division. By Robert Aldag Jr. Photo Classics - Steam-powered trains, in color, on Central Vermont, Chicago & North Western, Rock Island, and Rio Grande . . . and more. Hitchin' a Ride - In an Illinois snowstorm in 1964, a Wabash freight was the only way home. By J. David ingles Memoirs of a Railroad Janitor - The Southern Railway of the 1960s was a place for adventure, even for a college guy. By Ron Flanary Two Bad Days for a K4 - A fireman recalls two low points in the career of an otherwise dependable Pennsylvania 4-6-2. John A. Terhune A Little Time for an Old Enemy - How one photographer came to appreciate the F's that vanquished his beloved Southern Pacific steam. By Richard Steinheimer Classic Railroad Advertising: The Bitter End - As postwar prosperity proved to be a mirage, the railroads turned away from passenger advertising. By Michael Zega A Classic Year - 1935 The Way It Was - Tales by railroaders and railfans Bumping Post - King Street and Union, Seattle Editor's Page - What might have been Fast Mail - Letters from readers Fallen Flags Remembered - Frisco ON THE COVER: New Haven EP5 electric 377 heels to a curve with a New York-bound train at Cos Cob, Conn., in 1956 (see page 22).
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