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Classic Trains Special Collector's Edition #6 Railroads and World War II 2008
Railroads and World War II Classic Trains Special Collector's Edition #6 2008
114 Pages
All Aboard, Again! *Joe Welsh
World War II forced Americans back on board the trains
Inside Lima * Dwight Akers
I was on tank liaison, but I remember the men and locomotives
FDR's Wartime Train Travels * Fred B. Wrixon
The President's many trips had to employ the highest security
Douglas MacArthur's Engines * Charlie Knight
When Central of Georgia renamed its 2-8-2's, it told the general
Trains in White * Robert Gillespie
U.S. military hospital trains reached their apogee in World War II
Kodachrome on the Home Front *Arthur H. Bleich
Government photographer Jack Delano used a new type of film
NOW's Wandering Y-3's * Ed King
Compound 2-8-8-2's helped ease other railroads' power shortages
Woman's Touch in Wartime * Michael J. Matejka
How Henrietta Hanson became a B&O nurse-stewardess
Boom Times in Paradise * Robert A. Ramsay
Hawaii's 3-foot-gauge Oahu Railway bustled after Pearl Harbor
Black Gold by the Trainload *David Jones
The U-boat menace forced U.S. railroads into a tank-car ordeal
Slice of Home and a Cup of Joe * Peter A. Hansen
Station canteens like Dennison, Ohio's, lifted servicemen's spirits
Photo Section
Rare U.S. wartime views, including color on UP, SP, SAL, CB&Q
Putting Out the Maximum Effort *Jack Elwood
Working under adverse conditions on Santa Fe's L.A. Division
Tales of a GI Hogger * Les Hoffman
Railroading across Loui,[,i iia, North Africa, and Europe
IC's Mysterious Freight 4-4-2's *Jim Warsher
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