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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
The First PA's: the agony, the ecstasy, and the legacy
Alco and Santa Fe cooperated on a barrage of publicity for the builder's postwar passenger diesel, but the reality did not live up to the hype.
By Peter A. Hansen
Mr. Fogg, No. 603, and the Inextinguishable Lehigh Valley
How a boy's fascination with a promotional painting led to a lifelong love affair with a PA diesel
By Steven Duff
The Mighty 800
A young fireman discovers the awesome capabilities of a Union Pacific 4-8-4
By Les Clark
New York Central's Steam Stepchildren
While grown-up fans flocked to the Big Four to catch the last of the mighty Hudsons and Mohawks, a bike-riding kid in Buffalo witnessed a quieter end to NYC steam.
By Fred B. Furminger
Pittsburgh's Little-Known Carfloats
How a steelmaker sailed around the problems of poor rail service and high rates
By Ron A. Baraff and Jack Polaritz
The Shaughnessy Files: In Service to the Royals
Even in commuter service at the end of their careers, Canadian Pacific's famous Hudsons received the best of care
By Jim Shaughnessy
Classics Today: Royal Restoration
Royal Hudson 2860, British Columbia's former mainline steam star, has found a quieter life at a museum
By Robert S. McGonigal
Diesels South
A 12-state search in 1962 for rare and colorful power in Dixie
By R. R. "Dick" Wallin
Bird's-Eye View
Two Midwest backshops: Frisco at West Springfield, Mo., and NYC's at Beech Grove, Ind.
One Day at . . . Sanford, Fla.
Before an Auto-Train ride, a behind-the-scenes shop tour.
By George W. Hamlin
Departments
Editor's Page
Riding behind steam royalty on the Southern
Contributors
Meet this issue's crew
True Color
BAR Geeps on the PRR in Cleveland
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
Fallen Flags Remembered
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific
Workin' on the Railroad
Iron men, wooden cars: C&NW caboose crews in subzero weather
The Way It Was
Racing South on the Southern Belle (KCS) a€Ã
Alco and Santa Fe cooperated on a barrage of publicity for the builder's postwar passenger diesel, but the reality did not live up to the hype.
By Peter A. Hansen
Mr. Fogg, No. 603, and the Inextinguishable Lehigh Valley
How a boy's fascination with a promotional painting led to a lifelong love affair with a PA diesel
By Steven Duff
The Mighty 800
A young fireman discovers the awesome capabilities of a Union Pacific 4-8-4
By Les Clark
New York Central's Steam Stepchildren
While grown-up fans flocked to the Big Four to catch the last of the mighty Hudsons and Mohawks, a bike-riding kid in Buffalo witnessed a quieter end to NYC steam.
By Fred B. Furminger
Pittsburgh's Little-Known Carfloats
How a steelmaker sailed around the problems of poor rail service and high rates
By Ron A. Baraff and Jack Polaritz
The Shaughnessy Files: In Service to the Royals
Even in commuter service at the end of their careers, Canadian Pacific's famous Hudsons received the best of care
By Jim Shaughnessy
Classics Today: Royal Restoration
Royal Hudson 2860, British Columbia's former mainline steam star, has found a quieter life at a museum
By Robert S. McGonigal
Diesels South
A 12-state search in 1962 for rare and colorful power in Dixie
By R. R. "Dick" Wallin
Bird's-Eye View
Two Midwest backshops: Frisco at West Springfield, Mo., and NYC's at Beech Grove, Ind.
One Day at . . . Sanford, Fla.
Before an Auto-Train ride, a behind-the-scenes shop tour.
By George W. Hamlin
Departments
Editor's Page
Riding behind steam royalty on the Southern
Contributors
Meet this issue's crew
True Color
BAR Geeps on the PRR in Cleveland
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
Fallen Flags Remembered
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific
Workin' on the Railroad
Iron men, wooden cars: C&NW caboose crews in subzero weather
The Way It Was
Racing South on the Southern Belle (KCS) a€Ã
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