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Trains Magazine 1948 April George Washington Whistler Milwaukee: city of streaml
Trains April 1948 Vol 8 No 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover photo. By H. L. Kelso. -----1
Southern Pacific's Daylight headed by a Lima 4-8-4.
Frontispiece. Photo by Wayne Brumbaugh. ---2
B&A tower at Palmer, Mass.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By A. C. Kalmbach.4
Altoona at night. Photos by Al Rung. ----10
All through the night, Altoona station is a busy place, and the tracks are kept hot as night fleets slip in and out.
George Washington Whistler. By Alvin F. Harlow. -14
First in a series of historical sketches about the great engineers who built our railroads.
Milwaukee: city of streamliners. By A. C. Kalmbach.-19
A grand railroad operating show in a city with railroad blood in its arteries.
Northern Pacific 4-8-4's. Principal dimensions.--28
What is a No. 10 switch?-----30
Photo section. Selected railroad photographs.--32
Erie's class K-1 Pacific No. 2549 at Greycourt, N. Y., 32; Feather River Canyon, 33; Western Maryland freight, 34-35; Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr, 36; Burlington's class M-4a locomotive, 36; New Haven 3234 at Hartford, Conn., 37; Sierra Railroad, 38; The Frontier Shack, 39; The Little Nugget, 39; San Francisco's Key System transit lines, 40; Nickel Plate train 10 passes a freight on Rocky River trestle, 41.
Washington & Old Dominion. By Robert H. Estabrook.-42
Once part of the Southern Railway System, this single-track line changed from steam to electric to diesel power in its 93 years.
Four-hour track relocation on the Missouri Pacific.-47
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