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Trains Magazine 1949 February Perishable - Rush! To Boston on the Merchants Limi
Trains February 1949 Vol 9 No 4
CONTENTS
Cover photo. Courtesy Seaboard Air Line.--1
Rewinding a diesel armature in the Jacksonville Shops.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson.4
Grooming the Daylight. Photos by W. H. Thrall Jr.-13
There's more to "turning" a train than you'd think. The Daylight is completely renovated between runs.
Through the heart of the South. By Sam Appleby Jr.-16
Seaboard Air Line speeds redball freights through farmland and forests to bring oranges and watermelons to the tables of northern consumers. Its Silver Fleet carries tourists to the resorts of Florida.
Perishable - Rush! By Stephen Bogart.---26
Refrigerator cars migrate with the seasons to bring you fruits and vegetables fresh from the harvests. They have a history extending back to 1851.
To Boston on the Merchants Limited. By Roy G. Clark.-28
The New Haven's crack extra-fare train between New York City and Boston speeds over 12 drawbridges in 229 miles - more drawbridges per mile of track than on any other class 1 railroad.
Photo section. The railroads in action.---31
Michigan Central station at Detroit, 31; C&NW Chicago Express, 32; Tonnage on the Bessemer & Lake Erie, 33; Milwaukee Road electric locomotives, 33; Burlington at its birthplace, 34-35; M&StL, the road that came back from the dear!. 36-37; Baltimore & Annapolis in better days, 38; Canadian National snow loader and melter, 39.
The Golden Age of Railroad Construction.
By A. C. Kalmbach and David P. Morgan.--40
Those were hectic days at the turn of the century, when railroads were building new lines and rebuilding old ones.
I saw Palestine. By Robert W. Richardson.--46
Palestine was peaceful during the war, although armed guards rode the vestibules of trains to the Holy City of Jerusalem.
14,109 feet above sea level. By Linn H. Westcott.--50
The Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway is geared to the slopes of Colorado's most famous mountain.
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