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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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