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Trains Magazine 1949 July 101: gas turbine Route of the Southern Belle
Trains July 1949 Vol 9 No 9
CONTENTS
Cover photo. Courtesy Kansas City Southern Lines.-1
One of L&A's most modern steam locomotives, a class M-22 2-8-2, leaves New Orleans.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson.4
In the hills of Kentucky. A photo feature.-12
The little Kentucky & Tennessee Railway has a curve in a tunnel on a grade.
101: gas turbine. By David P. Morgan.--14
American Locomotive Company and General Electric pool their efforts and come up with a working gas turbine locomotive.
Route of the Southern Belle. By Willard V. Anderson.-18
Kansas City Southern Lines amazes the experts by turning in an operating ratio of only 55 per cent.
NYC's New England portal. By David P. Morgan.-28
Boston & Albany is a heavily powered mountain railroad neatly packaged in just two short operating districts.
Photo section. Railroads from coast to coast.-31
SP's Tehachapi Loop, 31; Milwaukee transfer drag, 32; RI's Corn Belt Rocket, 32; DL&W at Martin Creek, 32; CGW's Mill Cities Limited, 33; D&RGW in Tennessee Pass, 33; CPR's Alouette in Vermont, 34-35; In the chips, despite Jim Hill (Spokane International), 36-37; Mississippi & Alabama, 38; UP Challenger on a too-short turntable, 39.
The engine that walked in its sleep. By Mike Runey.-40
An uncommon occurrence on the Bennettsville & Cheraw.
Battling up to Bieber. By Frank P. Donovan Jr. --43
It takes four articulated locomotives to move 71 loaded cars up the steep grades of Western Pacific's Northern California Extension.
Northern Pacific locomotives. Photo-roster by R. V. Nixon.47
33 excellent examples of NP's varied fleet down through the years.
From switcher to saddletank.----54
The some engine pictured then and now.
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