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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Trains versus trucks: the decisive decade
In the 1950s, the trucking industry got the upper hand on the ralroading business and sent a stern message: Adapt or die
By Jim Giblin
Jake''s World
Life in and around a downtown metropolitan railroad station is a place where reality mimics classic film noir
By Benjamin B. Bachman
Map of the month: Whatever became of New York Central?
The fate of the jade green team - Cornelius Vanderbilt''s jewel - rests mostly with two coal roads from Virginia
Deccan Odyssey, India by deluxe train
A week spent on board a luxury train in India provides a window into a fascinating country and railroading as it is nowhere else on the planet
By Jeffrey T. Schultz
Online Extra:
For travel tips for your own Deccan Odyssey luxury train adventure, click here.
Saturday night fever
The night CSX ran Amtrak''s Auto Train ran on time, from Sanford, Fla., to Lorton, Va.
By Fred W. Frailey
Railroad Reading
A phone call and a confrontation are enough to make a Burlington Northern clerk change jobs in the late ''70s
By Charles W. Randolph
Gallery
Readers'' photographs of the New Haven atop Poughkeepsie Bridge, a nighttime domecar ride, Canadian Pacific approaching a tunnel, and Chinese steam in silhouette
News
News & Photos
Increasing ethanol traffic raises safety concerns
Don Phillips
Roy Blanchard
Technology
Paving the way for the rails with asphalt sub-ballast
Locomotive
Union Pacific experiments with ways to clean diesel exhaust; Canadian Pacific gets more GEs
Passenger
Amtrak gives passengers a taste of the future with a prototype diner-lounge car
City Rail
Must all commuter-rail stations look the same? California''s Metrolink doesn''t think so
Departments
From the Editor
Saving urban corridors for transit
Fantrip
Digital photography for dinosaurs
Preservation
Want to run a museum?
Ask Trains
Products
In the 1950s, the trucking industry got the upper hand on the ralroading business and sent a stern message: Adapt or die
By Jim Giblin
Jake''s World
Life in and around a downtown metropolitan railroad station is a place where reality mimics classic film noir
By Benjamin B. Bachman
Map of the month: Whatever became of New York Central?
The fate of the jade green team - Cornelius Vanderbilt''s jewel - rests mostly with two coal roads from Virginia
Deccan Odyssey, India by deluxe train
A week spent on board a luxury train in India provides a window into a fascinating country and railroading as it is nowhere else on the planet
By Jeffrey T. Schultz
Online Extra:
For travel tips for your own Deccan Odyssey luxury train adventure, click here.
Saturday night fever
The night CSX ran Amtrak''s Auto Train ran on time, from Sanford, Fla., to Lorton, Va.
By Fred W. Frailey
Railroad Reading
A phone call and a confrontation are enough to make a Burlington Northern clerk change jobs in the late ''70s
By Charles W. Randolph
Gallery
Readers'' photographs of the New Haven atop Poughkeepsie Bridge, a nighttime domecar ride, Canadian Pacific approaching a tunnel, and Chinese steam in silhouette
News
News & Photos
Increasing ethanol traffic raises safety concerns
Don Phillips
Roy Blanchard
Technology
Paving the way for the rails with asphalt sub-ballast
Locomotive
Union Pacific experiments with ways to clean diesel exhaust; Canadian Pacific gets more GEs
Passenger
Amtrak gives passengers a taste of the future with a prototype diner-lounge car
City Rail
Must all commuter-rail stations look the same? California''s Metrolink doesn''t think so
Departments
From the Editor
Saving urban corridors for transit
Fantrip
Digital photography for dinosaurs
Preservation
Want to run a museum?
Ask Trains
Products
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