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Classic Trains Special Edition #26 2020 #2 More Trains of the 1940’s
Classic Trains Special Edition #26 2020 #2 More Trains of the 1940s
Classic Trains Special Edition is a 2018 publication. On the Cover, Alco's PA passenger diesel was a landmark design of the 1940s. A three-unit set of Southern Pacific PAs basks in the Bay Area sun at the road's West Oakland roundhouse in August 1955. William Harry
Contents
6 All-American Beauty
BY JOHN GRUBER
When Alco wanted a diesel with sizzle, it turned to designer Ray Patten, who created the legendary PA
14Milwaukee: Railroad Town
BY A. C. KALMBACH
A 1948 tour of the city where the orange-and-maroon passenger cars are built
24Heroes of the Home Front
BY EDWARD HUNGERFORD
Railroaders are vital to the war effort
28Philly's Personality Trains
BY A. M. RUNG JR.
Philadelphia's trains, and the people who ride them
34Midwestern Time Freight
BY FRANK P. DONOVAN JR.
A ride on Minneapolis & St. Louis's hottest hotshot
42NYC's New England Portal
BY DAVID P. MORGAN
Boston & Albany blends history with modernity 48 Rapid Exhaust
BY HOWARD W. BULL
Firing a new SP 4-8-4 on a fast run out of Oakland
58Wartime Railfan Trip
BY WILLIAM LEONARD
2,500 miles on trains where passengers are rare
64The '40s in Photos
War freight and flashy streamliners, veteran steam and new diesels
76Gotham Goes West
Old New York transit cars move California workers
80ACF's First Postwar Streamliners
L&N's Georgian and Humming Bird
86Vermont Short Line
BY PHILIP R. HASTINGS
St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain's quaint little trains
94The Locomotive in 1949
BY DAVID P. MORGAN
A sluggish year for diesel orders; a terrible one for steam; and turbines catch UP's eye
104Wartime Memories
BY C. GRATTAN PRICE JR.
From Bucyrus to Belgium, a Military Railway Service vet remembers 1944
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