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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features
Hollywood's locomotive
When the producers of the animated Polar Express went looking for a locomotive, they found Pere Marquette 1225.
By David Lustig
Network intermodal battles trucks
European railways are regaining business - and their secret weapon is the hump yard!
By Edwin R. "Chip" Kraft
Mail train to Beatlemania
Thanks to the Old Reliable, I got to see the Fab Four in one of their last concerts.
By Ron Flanary
Railroad Blueprint: Maybrook, N.Y.
One yard, six railroads, cars by the thousands: the Northeast's melting pot.
By J.W. Swanberg
Map of the Month: NYC facilities, 1960
New York Central was the largest Eastern railroad in terms of mileage in the 1960s, and it required quite an infrastructure.
News
Railroad News & Photos
BNSF opens second flyover junction in Kansas City area.
Don Phillips
Transportation needs a real total breakdown. Is anyone listening?
Mark W. Hemphill
Subsidies for all or subsidies for none: You've got to choose.
Locomotives
UP finally has its renumbering practice down to a science.
Passenger
Service reductions undo the seams of Amtrak's American quilt.
City Rail
Dallas Area Rapid Transit expands light rail to Victory Station.
Preservation
North Judson, Ind., preserves 33-mile line.
Departments
From the Editor
Railway Post Office
Railroad Reading
Ask Trains
Preservation
New Products
Gallery
Once upon a time in Trains
Hollywood's locomotive
When the producers of the animated Polar Express went looking for a locomotive, they found Pere Marquette 1225.
By David Lustig
Network intermodal battles trucks
European railways are regaining business - and their secret weapon is the hump yard!
By Edwin R. "Chip" Kraft
Mail train to Beatlemania
Thanks to the Old Reliable, I got to see the Fab Four in one of their last concerts.
By Ron Flanary
Railroad Blueprint: Maybrook, N.Y.
One yard, six railroads, cars by the thousands: the Northeast's melting pot.
By J.W. Swanberg
Map of the Month: NYC facilities, 1960
New York Central was the largest Eastern railroad in terms of mileage in the 1960s, and it required quite an infrastructure.
News
Railroad News & Photos
BNSF opens second flyover junction in Kansas City area.
Don Phillips
Transportation needs a real total breakdown. Is anyone listening?
Mark W. Hemphill
Subsidies for all or subsidies for none: You've got to choose.
Locomotives
UP finally has its renumbering practice down to a science.
Passenger
Service reductions undo the seams of Amtrak's American quilt.
City Rail
Dallas Area Rapid Transit expands light rail to Victory Station.
Preservation
North Judson, Ind., preserves 33-mile line.
Departments
From the Editor
Railway Post Office
Railroad Reading
Ask Trains
Preservation
New Products
Gallery
Once upon a time in Trains
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