Classic Trains Special #18 Great Trains West Golden age of transcontinental rail

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Classic Trains Special #18 Great Trains West Golden age of transcontinental rail
 
Great Trains West 2016 Extra Classic Trains Special #18
123 Pages
Explore the great passenger trains that roamed the vast lands west of Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans. This 124-page, large-format edition recalls the era when fleets of colorful streamliners dashed across the plains and snaked through the mountains of the American West.

The stories include:
Saga of the UP Streamliners
To Los Angeles on the Sunset
Scheduled for Scenery
The North Coast Makes Up Time
The Clean Window Train
Story of the Super Chief
Plus, SP's Daylights, the Rocky Mountain Rocket, and more!

Classic Trains Special Edition No.18 Great Trains West Extra 2016
8     UP CITY STREAMLINERSYellow Trains to Colorado and the Coast  BY A. C. KALMBACH
18     SUNSET LIMITEDTo Los Angeles on the Sunset  BY ROY G. CLARK
28     MOUNTAINEERTrain of Two Countries  BY FRANK P. DONOVAN
40     CALIFORNIA ZEPHYRScheduled for Scenery  BY WILLARD V. ANDERSON
48    SP DAYLIGHTS West Coast Money Machines  BY WILLARD V. ANDERSON
60     EL CAPITANShort Hop on El Capitan  BY WALLACE W. ABBEY
66    TRAIN OF TOMORROWAstra Domes in the Northwest  BY COURTLAND MATTHEWS
70    SAN FRANCISCO OVERLANDTrain of Tradition  BY DAVID P. MORGAN
82    NORTH COAST LIMITEDNo. 1 Makes Up Time  BY DAVID P. MORGAN
88    ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROCKETWhere the Rockets Wed  BY EARL COCHRAN
96     EMPIRE BUILDERThe Clean-Window Train  BY DAVID P. MORGAN
110     SUPER CHIEFStory of the Super Chief  BY STAN REPP
GREAT TRAINS IN PHOTOS
16      OLYMPIAN HIAWATHA
26      SAN DIEGANS
38      MAINSTREETER AND WESTERN STAR
58      SAN JUAN
80      COLORADO EAGLE 94 DENVER ZEPHYR
108    SUPER CONTINENTAL

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