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Classic Trains Special Edition #22 2018 #2 Steam’s Lost Empire
Classic Trains Special Edition #22 2018 #2 Steams Lost Empire
Classic Trains Special Edition is a 2018 publication. On the Cover, Pennsylvania Railroad E6s Atlantic No.198 rides the turntable at the 46th Street engine terminal, Philadelphia, in the late 1930s. In 1934, the facility dispatched an average of 175 steam locomotives each day.
Harold M. Lamber
Contents
6 Home-built 4-8-2 on the Run Baltimore & Ohio T-3 in Ohio
8Day with an SP Hogger
PHOTO ESSAY BY WARD KIMBALL
32 photos document the last L.A.-Bakersfield round trip for 48-year veteran Bascom Farrow
20 90 MPH on a 4-6-4
BY DAVID P. MORGAN
A breathtaking yet routine ride on the Milwaukee Road
24600 Tons for a 2-8-8-2
4-percent grade on a Northern Pacific branch
26 Standard Railroading
BY H. STAFFORD BRYANT
Reflections on the glorious heyday of steam and steel
34Citadel of CB&Q Steam
Mikado at Centralia, Ill., in 1957
36Cab Ride on a Camelback
PHOTO ESSAY BY PHILIP R. HASTINGS
A Jersey Central 4-6-0 is the setting for one of the rarest experiences on rails
48 Roundhouse Foreman
BY F. H. HOWARD
Looking after men and their machines on the Canadian Pacific required a special set of skills
58A Quiet Corner of the Santa Fe
2-10-0 on a New Mexico mixed train
6012 Hours with a Niagara
PHOTO ESSAY BY W. A. AKIN JR.
Follow an NYC 4-8-4 as it is serviced and then turned loose with the Empire State Express
66 "Nickel Plate High-Speed Service" A Berkshire approaches Leipsic, Ohio
68Gulf Summit: July 4,1946
PHOTO ESSAY BY W. R. OSBORNE
Heavy Pacifics, 2-10-2s, and Berkshires do battle
with the Erie Railroad's toughest grade
76The Last True Believer
Norfolk & Western Y3 2-8-8-2
78Contingencies Not Covered in the
Fireman's Manual
BY LLOYD ARKINSTALL
There was never a dull moment for a fireman on
Pennsy's New York Division in the 1940s
84 Ten Days in March
PHOTO ESSAY BY TOM GILDERSLEEVE
A Californian finds a paradise of steam and snow
on the Rio Grande narrow gauge in 1963
104North Western's "Zeppelin" 4-8-4s
Lineup of eight class H Northerns
106 A Railfan Goes Railroading
BY WALTER THRALL
How a young man put aside his camera to go firing on UP's Los Angeles Division in 1941
114Last Corner of Big Steam's Empire
Nacionales de Mexico 2-6-6-2 in 1962
116 Engineers I Have Known
BY THOMAS 0. ACREE
Remembering the heady days of wooden cars
and iron men on the Southern Railway
122 C&O Behemoth
2-6-6-6 Allegheny on coal hoppers
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