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Great Northern Railway Postwar Passenger Trains Strauss, Jr Hard cover
Great Northern Railway Postwar Passenger Trains Strauss, Jr hard cover
Great Northern Railway
Postwar Passenger Trains
John F. Strauss, Jr
Hard Cover
2017
208
Contents
Bibliography 2
Acknowledgements 3
Transition to Postwar Operations: 1945-19465
Postwar Empire Builder, Oriental Limited, and Fast Mail: 1947-1951 13
Mid-Century Empire Builder and Western Star: 1951-1954 42
New Great Dome Cars: 1955-1959 64
Great Dome Empire Builder 70
Western Star and Fast Mail 81
Combinations and Revisions: 1960-1963
Revised Western Star 88
Burlington Route Combinations 94
1962 Seattle World's Fair98
Floods, Blizzards, and Detours: 1964-1966
1964 Middle Fork of the Flathead River Flood 107
1965 Mississippi River Flood 112
March 1966 North Dakota Blizzards117
Multi-Colors Era: May 1966-February 1970 123
Burlington Northern's Empire Builder and Western Star: March 1970-April 1971 149
Amtrak's Chicago-Pacific Northwest Service The 1970s 168
Epilogue 202
Great Northern Railway Postwar Transcontinental Passenger Trains is filled with hundreds colorful and sharp b&w photographs. Also included is operations of Great Northern through passenger trains on the CB&Q (Burlington Route), Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, and later Burlington Northern, followed by Amtrak operations of former Great Northern trains as well as Pacific Northwest passenger operations during the 1970s.
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