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eatures
The Haywire becomes a live wire
The empire Kansas City Southern Chairman Mike Haverty has pieced together is poised to explode with new business
By Fred W. Frailey
The last of the first
The Michigan Alco just won't quit
By Garland McKee
Nevada Treasure
Nevada Northern, the best-preserved, intact, standard-gauge steam railroad, stakes a claim to survival
By Peter A. Hansen
Map of the Month: Railroad employees
See how railroad employment has changed, state by state, from 1950 to 2004
By Curtis W. Richards
ONLINE EXTRA:
For more information on railroad employee statistics, visit the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. For a detailed breakdown of railroad employment in 2004 by state and by railroad, check out this report from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board.
Why I quit the railroad, Part 2
The 'lord of the night' helped take on Union Pacific, but it couldn't save a career
By Linda Grant Niemann
Lima's littlest Shay lives
In this Pennsylvania backyard, a 12-ton survivor steams yet
By Jim Wrinn
News
Railroad News & Photos
Frequent east Coast delays on CSX are stifling Amtrak
Don Phillips
Roaring along the Santa Fe (double track) trail
Tom Murray
On board a train people paid good money to ride
Technology
Defect detectors talking less, identifying flat spots on wheels
By Ernest H. Robl
Locomotive
EMD standardizes its locomotive production a€ finally
By David Lustig
Passenger
Amtrak improves food service a€" and cuts costs
By Bob Johnston
City Rail
Dallas Area Rapid Transit lands funds to double its system
By Alexander B. Craghead
Departments
From the Editor
Time to get back on the radar
Railroad Reading
My mountain machine by Mike Iden
Fantrip
We, the railfans, reserve the right to bear cameras by Walter E. Zullig Jr.
Preservation
This museum celebrates Erie are railroading by Jim Wrinn
New Products
The Haywire becomes a live wire
The empire Kansas City Southern Chairman Mike Haverty has pieced together is poised to explode with new business
By Fred W. Frailey
The last of the first
The Michigan Alco just won't quit
By Garland McKee
Nevada Treasure
Nevada Northern, the best-preserved, intact, standard-gauge steam railroad, stakes a claim to survival
By Peter A. Hansen
Map of the Month: Railroad employees
See how railroad employment has changed, state by state, from 1950 to 2004
By Curtis W. Richards
ONLINE EXTRA:
For more information on railroad employee statistics, visit the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. For a detailed breakdown of railroad employment in 2004 by state and by railroad, check out this report from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board.
Why I quit the railroad, Part 2
The 'lord of the night' helped take on Union Pacific, but it couldn't save a career
By Linda Grant Niemann
Lima's littlest Shay lives
In this Pennsylvania backyard, a 12-ton survivor steams yet
By Jim Wrinn
News
Railroad News & Photos
Frequent east Coast delays on CSX are stifling Amtrak
Don Phillips
Roaring along the Santa Fe (double track) trail
Tom Murray
On board a train people paid good money to ride
Technology
Defect detectors talking less, identifying flat spots on wheels
By Ernest H. Robl
Locomotive
EMD standardizes its locomotive production a€ finally
By David Lustig
Passenger
Amtrak improves food service a€" and cuts costs
By Bob Johnston
City Rail
Dallas Area Rapid Transit lands funds to double its system
By Alexander B. Craghead
Departments
From the Editor
Time to get back on the radar
Railroad Reading
My mountain machine by Mike Iden
Fantrip
We, the railfans, reserve the right to bear cameras by Walter E. Zullig Jr.
Preservation
This museum celebrates Erie are railroading by Jim Wrinn
New Products
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