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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Zephyr She Ain't - A Burlington Route motor car at Savannah, Mo., was a distant cousin indeed to the road's marquee trains. By Robert S. McGonigal Cover Story: Tough Texans of the Bessemer - Little Bessemer & Lake Erie operated America's third largest fleet of 2-10-4'sa€and they were awesome machines. By Bert Pennypacker Serving the Railroad in the Middle of Nowhere - At age 18, Maggie Mosher went to work for the Western Pacific as a wartime telegrapher in the Nevada desert. By Dick Dom The Flower of Travel Comfort - Named for Colorado's state flower, UP's Columbine offered elegant service between Chicago and Denver. By Arthur D. Dubin Waitin' on the Railroad - For a Milwaukee Road switch crew in the prewar calm of 1940, waiting is ""an immutable constant."" By D. W. Bassett Great Photographers: J. Parker Lamb - After masterfully documenting the transition from steam, this pho- tographer didn't miss a beat in the dieselized 1960s. By John Gruber The Wreck at Little Falls - One night in 1940, something went tragically wrong for New York Centrals Lake Shore Limited. By Ben Alabastro The Rutland: A Salesman's View - Bringing freight traffic to a lovable New England carrier in its last years. By Heaton L. Bullock Photo Classics - A gallery of color and black-and-white images, including Jersey Central Baldwins, a Rocket in Chicago, and a trio of interurbans. By Train to Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga - The old Jack Benny radio-show gag was just a collection of Los Angeles-area place namesa€"or was it? By Curtis L. Katz Classic Railroad Advertising: Postwar Promise - With wartime travel restrictions lifted and new rolling stock on order, the future seemed bright in the late 1940s. By Michael Zega Editor's Page - When things aren't'what they seem Fast Mail - Letters from our readers Fallen Flags Remembered - Western Maryland A Classic Year - 1949 The Way It Was - Tales by railroaders and railfans Bumping Post - Rock Island at Des Momes, Iowa ON THE COVER: One of Bessemer & Lake Erie's mammoth 2-10-4 Texas types pours it on near North Bessemer, Pa., as it rolls an 80-car ore train southward around 1950 (see page 24). Fred McLeod photo.
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