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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Warm Hearts in the IC-y Heartland
For 36 years, the CN/Illinois Central Santa Train has been bringing Christmas cheer to rural central Illinois.
By Kathi Kube
ONLINE EXTRA:
The 2007 Santa Train runs Dec. 8-9. For a complete schedule, click here. Feel like something sweet? Click here for the IC Santa Train Pumpkin Rolls recipe!
One Last Spin
When steam-powered narrow-gauge rotary OY made her final run, she put on a show in the snow.
By Tom Cerwin
Fifty Below at North Pole
When winter strikes the Alaska Railroad, nothing wants to move - except the falling mercury.
By Art Chase
ONLINE EXTRA:
Click here to download more stories from Trains Magazine about railroading in Alaska!
Map of the Month: BNSF Snowsheds on Marias Pass
BNSF still uses 11 snowsheds the Great Northern built on it's St. Paul, Minn.-Seattle transcontinental main line.
By David Lustig
Winter in the New River Gorge
Trains shine their lights through the valleys that sunlight doesn't touch in the dead of winter.
By Scott Lothes
Railroad Reading
Christmas on the Klamath: Whether on the job or not, there are always surprises on the railroad. This time I'm a passenger headed home for the holidays.
By Dan Maher
Gallery
Rio Grande in Minturn, Colo., in 1988; Union Pacific at Tucumcari, N.M., in 2006; and a New York Central engineer's view in Rockwood, Mich., in 1966
News
News & Photos
How will CPR/DM&E combo reshuffle the deck?
Don Phillips
Roy Blanchard
Technology
FRA 'explains, amplifies' bridge-inspection needs
Locomotive
MotivePower enters genset-building market
Passenger
Maine's Downeaster scores two successes
City Rail
Light rail relies on the tried and true to fight snow
Departments
From the Editor
What's your favorite book?
Ask Trains
Fantrip
All I want for Christmas is ...
Preservation
Ten stations earn honors
Products
For 36 years, the CN/Illinois Central Santa Train has been bringing Christmas cheer to rural central Illinois.
By Kathi Kube
ONLINE EXTRA:
The 2007 Santa Train runs Dec. 8-9. For a complete schedule, click here. Feel like something sweet? Click here for the IC Santa Train Pumpkin Rolls recipe!
One Last Spin
When steam-powered narrow-gauge rotary OY made her final run, she put on a show in the snow.
By Tom Cerwin
Fifty Below at North Pole
When winter strikes the Alaska Railroad, nothing wants to move - except the falling mercury.
By Art Chase
ONLINE EXTRA:
Click here to download more stories from Trains Magazine about railroading in Alaska!
Map of the Month: BNSF Snowsheds on Marias Pass
BNSF still uses 11 snowsheds the Great Northern built on it's St. Paul, Minn.-Seattle transcontinental main line.
By David Lustig
Winter in the New River Gorge
Trains shine their lights through the valleys that sunlight doesn't touch in the dead of winter.
By Scott Lothes
Railroad Reading
Christmas on the Klamath: Whether on the job or not, there are always surprises on the railroad. This time I'm a passenger headed home for the holidays.
By Dan Maher
Gallery
Rio Grande in Minturn, Colo., in 1988; Union Pacific at Tucumcari, N.M., in 2006; and a New York Central engineer's view in Rockwood, Mich., in 1966
News
News & Photos
How will CPR/DM&E combo reshuffle the deck?
Don Phillips
Roy Blanchard
Technology
FRA 'explains, amplifies' bridge-inspection needs
Locomotive
MotivePower enters genset-building market
Passenger
Maine's Downeaster scores two successes
City Rail
Light rail relies on the tried and true to fight snow
Departments
From the Editor
What's your favorite book?
Ask Trains
Fantrip
All I want for Christmas is ...
Preservation
Ten stations earn honors
Products
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