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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Men at Work
A Reading Company engineer snags train orders from a 2-8-2 cab.
By Robert S. McGonigal
Tracking Midwestern F Units in the 1970's
A young Twin Cities railfan was surrounded by the F units of four railroads.
By Steve Glischinski
Classics Today: Jewel of a Museum Piece
Duluth''s Soo Line FP7 still gets out on the road.
By Steve Glischinski
"Ya Gotta Get Coal Experience"
A Union Pacific student fireman in oil-burner territory gets some schooling in the art of coal-firing.
By Les Clark
Great Photographers: Bob Searle: Born to Railroading
The steam locomotive occupied center stage for this northern Californian.
By Tom Dill
Bird's-Eye View: Three Major New York Central Yards
Annotated aerial views of Selkirk, N.Y.; Frontier Yard (Buffalo), N.Y.; and Niles, Mich.
Busy Hands, Busy Feet
A photographer makes the most of a MoPac Eagle''s passage.
By Dan Pope
Putting Locomotives to the Test
Dynamometer cars and stationary test plants helped in the design of better locomotives.
By William D. Middleton
One Day at . . . Kansas City
Passenger trains and engine terminals were the highlights of a sunny, snow-covered January 4, 1968.
By J. David Ingles
Online extra: 1940''s action at Kansas City Union Station
Senior Editor Dave Ingles saw a lot of variety and action during his 1968 day at Kansas City, but the show was even more impressive two decades earlier, right after World War II, as seen in two video clips from the Herron Rail Video program "Glory Machines, Vol. 5."
Indiana Train-Ride Trilogy
A noted artist and Hoosier State native remembers trips on the Pennsylvania, New York Central, and Monon.
By Gil Reid
Crescent City Nirvana
What better place to watch passenger trains from than the cab of a New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal switcher?
By C. K. Marsh Jr.
Departments
Editor's Page
Chasing the disappearing past
Fallen Flags Remembered
Texas & Pacific J. Parker Lamb
True Color
A Grand Trunk Western 2-8-2 pinch-hitting at Pontiac, Mich.
A Classic Year
1947: Trains of Freedom and the Future
The Way It Was
Railroading in Maine at 40 Below Zero, by Marvin Dow a€Ã
A Reading Company engineer snags train orders from a 2-8-2 cab.
By Robert S. McGonigal
Tracking Midwestern F Units in the 1970's
A young Twin Cities railfan was surrounded by the F units of four railroads.
By Steve Glischinski
Classics Today: Jewel of a Museum Piece
Duluth''s Soo Line FP7 still gets out on the road.
By Steve Glischinski
"Ya Gotta Get Coal Experience"
A Union Pacific student fireman in oil-burner territory gets some schooling in the art of coal-firing.
By Les Clark
Great Photographers: Bob Searle: Born to Railroading
The steam locomotive occupied center stage for this northern Californian.
By Tom Dill
Bird's-Eye View: Three Major New York Central Yards
Annotated aerial views of Selkirk, N.Y.; Frontier Yard (Buffalo), N.Y.; and Niles, Mich.
Busy Hands, Busy Feet
A photographer makes the most of a MoPac Eagle''s passage.
By Dan Pope
Putting Locomotives to the Test
Dynamometer cars and stationary test plants helped in the design of better locomotives.
By William D. Middleton
One Day at . . . Kansas City
Passenger trains and engine terminals were the highlights of a sunny, snow-covered January 4, 1968.
By J. David Ingles
Online extra: 1940''s action at Kansas City Union Station
Senior Editor Dave Ingles saw a lot of variety and action during his 1968 day at Kansas City, but the show was even more impressive two decades earlier, right after World War II, as seen in two video clips from the Herron Rail Video program "Glory Machines, Vol. 5."
Indiana Train-Ride Trilogy
A noted artist and Hoosier State native remembers trips on the Pennsylvania, New York Central, and Monon.
By Gil Reid
Crescent City Nirvana
What better place to watch passenger trains from than the cab of a New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal switcher?
By C. K. Marsh Jr.
Departments
Editor's Page
Chasing the disappearing past
Fallen Flags Remembered
Texas & Pacific J. Parker Lamb
True Color
A Grand Trunk Western 2-8-2 pinch-hitting at Pontiac, Mich.
A Classic Year
1947: Trains of Freedom and the Future
The Way It Was
Railroading in Maine at 40 Below Zero, by Marvin Dow a€Ã
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