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Trains Magazine 1949 March President Truman's campaign special
Trains March 1949 Vol 9 No 5
CONTENTS
Cover photo. Courtesy Milwaukee Journal.--1
Before November 2 at Sparta, Wis.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson.4
College takes to the rails. By Philip R. Hastings.-12
You can't learn the railroad game within ivy-covered walls, so a smart University of Vermont professor took his class into cab and combine.
President Truman's Campaign Special.
By Walter Fitzmaurice.----16
A speech-by-speech account of how Missouri's most celebrated county judge traveled by rail to explain the pollsters' errors to voters.
Past midnight. Train time in the early hours.--23
Life slows down after 12 o'clock to the indefinite tempo of an old typewriter in an ancient station beside the high iron.
The railroads be dammed! By Leland Day.--24
Railroads of the Queen City got terribly irritated at the muddy waters of the Ohio, so they waterproofed their yards.
Burlington: Road of passenger progress. By W. V. Anderson.26
The fascinating inside story of how a great Middlewestern carrier wooed and won passengers with stainless steel, diesels, vista domes, and just plain friendliness.
Photo section. Mass transportation in focus.--31
Southbound hoppers on the L&N, 31; GN's Puget Sounder carrying green, 32; Articulateds on the WM, 32; Roundhouse nocturne on the Espee, 33; Old and forgotten on the Montpelier & Wells River, 33; Central's classic Hudson, 34-35; High altitude railroading to a 3-foot gauge, 36-37; Lehigh & Hudson, 38; Dominion traction line, 39.
Long Island Rail Road. By Rae Ediger.---40
How the Pennsylvania's metropolitan offspring started out to be a link to Boston and wound up as the commuter road of the century.
Mail pickup on the B&M. A photo story.---50
Illustrating one phase of one of the railroads' greatest and least-appreciated jobs.
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