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Trains Magazine 1948 February Erie's S-3 and S-4. Principal dimensions GM&O expa
Trains February 1948 Vol 8 No 4 NOTICE writing on front cover (B) and back cover (numbers)
CONTENTS
Cover photo. By Arthur F. Knauer.----1
D&H Wilkes-Barre freight south of Bainbridge, N. Y.
Erie's S-3 and S-4. Principal dimensions.---8
Erie Berkshire on Port Jervis Hill. Painting by Howard Fogg.9
The Expanding GM&O. By Freeman H. Hubbard. --10
"Ike" Tigrett takes railroad mergers and leases in his stride, and chances are he will take over the Frisco, too!
Railroad traffic cop. By Peter Josserand.- --18
Train dispatchers have a responsible job with many headaches.
Schenectady sketch. By David B. Russell.---22
A great railroading city steeped in railroad lore.
Pole road locomotives of the early days.---27
Photo section. Selected railroad photographs.--28
B&M's heavy Hudson No. 612, 28; WP's Extra 2 East in Feather River Canyon, 29; Bridgton & Harrison, ghost railroad, 30-31; B&O roundhouse, 32; B&O 2-8-8-0 approaches 17-Mile Grade, 32; Milwaukee Road's Columbian at Tacoma, Wash., 33; NH Berkshire Express at South Norwalk, Conn., 33; P&R engine 356 takes water at Lebanon, Pa., 34-35; GN's Empire Builder observation-lounge and kitchen, 36; buffet-lounge car of B&O's Cincinnatian, 36; reclaiming roofs from dismantled cars, 37.
To Los Angeles on the Sunset. By Roy G. Clark.--38
SP provides smooth, fast operations from New Orleans to the Pacific.
How the electro-pneumatic semaphore works.--43
Drawings by David Strassman.
SP abandons Cloudcroft branch. By K. C. Ingram. --44
Rugged mountains could not discourage railroading in this area, but highway competition did.
Boston & Maine class R-1d 4-8-4. Principal dimensions.-46
How they built the vista-domes.----48
Dome-car construction posed many problems.
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