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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Glory Days: Fastest Thing on Earth
Nickel Plate Road's made good on its "High Speed Service" slogan, and taught a young boy about railroading.
By By William Benning Stewart
The Lonesome Pine Special's Jopurney into History
Anatomy of a discontinuance: The last days of a colorful Southern Railway train were difficult, and precedent-setting.
By By Ed Wolfe
Electric Freight!
A special photo gallery of 15 U.S. steam railroads-including 9 in color and a Pennsy/Milwaukee Road foldout-that employed "juice jacks" to haul tonnage in the classic era.
One Day at . . . Bound Brook, N.J.
Jersey Central and B&O action in 1973 at a north Jersey junction.
By By George W. Hamlin
Great Photographers: Thomas J. McNamara
Tom was a color pioneer, who, with his late friend Kent Cochrane, covered the New Haven like a blanket in the1950's.
By By Scott A. Hartley
Augmenting on SP's Coast Division
For a locomotive fireman in the early 1950's, extra-board pay was better, and the assignments were more interesting.
By By Bob Freese
The Buffalo Shuffle
Each night in 1949, the New York Central performed miracles at Buffalo Central Terminal, where switch crews juggled nearly 100 cars among 30 passenger trains. With a special foldout car-routing diagram.
By By Bob Chambers
Rocketing on By
A 1961 interlude at Englewood (Ill.) Union Station concludes with a close call.
By By J. David Ingles
Bird's-Eye View: Santa Fe in Three States
Albuquerque (N.Mex) roundhouse and shops; the Tulsan in Oklahoma; Gainesville (Tex.) yard.
Departments
Editor's Page
High-profile niche technology
True Color
Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle in 1962
Fallen Flags Remembered
Clinchfield
A Classic Year
1942: Wartime, Abandonments, Records
The Way It Was
Finding Erie-builts on the Pennsy in 1961, by Jay Potter a€Ã
Nickel Plate Road's made good on its "High Speed Service" slogan, and taught a young boy about railroading.
By By William Benning Stewart
The Lonesome Pine Special's Jopurney into History
Anatomy of a discontinuance: The last days of a colorful Southern Railway train were difficult, and precedent-setting.
By By Ed Wolfe
Electric Freight!
A special photo gallery of 15 U.S. steam railroads-including 9 in color and a Pennsy/Milwaukee Road foldout-that employed "juice jacks" to haul tonnage in the classic era.
One Day at . . . Bound Brook, N.J.
Jersey Central and B&O action in 1973 at a north Jersey junction.
By By George W. Hamlin
Great Photographers: Thomas J. McNamara
Tom was a color pioneer, who, with his late friend Kent Cochrane, covered the New Haven like a blanket in the1950's.
By By Scott A. Hartley
Augmenting on SP's Coast Division
For a locomotive fireman in the early 1950's, extra-board pay was better, and the assignments were more interesting.
By By Bob Freese
The Buffalo Shuffle
Each night in 1949, the New York Central performed miracles at Buffalo Central Terminal, where switch crews juggled nearly 100 cars among 30 passenger trains. With a special foldout car-routing diagram.
By By Bob Chambers
Rocketing on By
A 1961 interlude at Englewood (Ill.) Union Station concludes with a close call.
By By J. David Ingles
Bird's-Eye View: Santa Fe in Three States
Albuquerque (N.Mex) roundhouse and shops; the Tulsan in Oklahoma; Gainesville (Tex.) yard.
Departments
Editor's Page
High-profile niche technology
True Color
Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle in 1962
Fallen Flags Remembered
Clinchfield
A Classic Year
1942: Wartime, Abandonments, Records
The Way It Was
Finding Erie-builts on the Pennsy in 1961, by Jay Potter a€Ã
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