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Trains Magazine 1948 July 13 ideal passenger cars Operation Selkirk
Trains July 1948 Vol 8 No 9
CONTENTS
Cover photo. Courtesy Boston & Maine Railroad.--1
Test Engineer Ernest R. Whitney cleaning headlight on Engine 3711.
Frontispiece. Photo by A. C. Kalmbach.---2
Chicago & North Western's first Atlantic.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson.4
Gateway to the Southwest. A photo story.---13
13 ideal passenger cars.-----17
Operation Selkirk. By Wallace Ashley and Max Spitalny. -18
New York Central's big classification yard near Albany eliminates an old-time traffic bottleneck.
Photo section. Selected railroad photographs.--30
Southbound freight over the now-abandoned Pittsburg, Showmut & Northern near West Notch, N. Y., 30; Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis train No. 3 southbound from Memphis, 31; Frisco 4-6-4 fresh from her morning bath, 31; noon train out of Seattle, 32; Southern Pacific's Daylight engine No. 4412 backing into Brooklyn roundhouse, 32; Great Northern's eastbound Cascadian climbs the grade toward the Cascade Tunnel at the summit of Stevens Pass, Washington, 33; New Haven local freight swings around a curve near Beacon Falls, Conn., 34-35; Alaska Railroad's No. 584, 36; The Sacramento Northern all-electrified line, 37.
The dark horse "400" streamliner. By Frank P. Donovan Jr.38
A trip on the North Western's Peninsula "400" from Chicago to Michigan's iron country.
SP's Picnic Line. By Dick Houghton.---46
California's once-popular railroad is almost forgotten today.
Streamliners of the U. S. Map and comments by Linn H. Westcott. 45
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