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Trains Magazine 1950 June The route of Phoebe Snow Scheduled for scenery
Trains June 1950 Vol 10 No 8
CONTENTS
Cover photo. By Bruce Nett.----1
Lackawanna No. 802, an Electro-Motive F-3.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson.6
90 miles an hour aboard a 4-6-4. By David P. Morgan. -13
Ride the speedway of the Milwaukee Road on one of the world's fastest locomotives.
The C-Line on test. By David P. Morgan.---16
The automobile-like competition in diesels is notched up by a top-performing new Fairbanks-Morse unit.
The route of Phoebe Snow. By John T. Cunningham.-18
Diesel power and streamlined air-conditioned cars keep Miss Snow clean on the eastern line that once boasted it was "The Road of Anthracite."
Photo section. The art of the railroad photographer.-27
Middle Division diesels, 27; Feather River Canyon, 28; C&El Georgian, 28; CPR extra, 29; Midland Valley Mike, 29; NYC: Before and after, 30-31; Alco 4-6-6-4, 32; Mississippi Central, 32; Narrow-gauge 4-4-0, 33; Espee Golden State, 33; Litchfield & Madison, 34; Warning at Wildwood, 35.
Scheduled for scenery. By Willard V. Anderson.--36
California Zephyr makes money by giving its tourist-minded travelers a vista-dome view of Western Pacific's Feather River Canyon and Rio Grande's Continental Divide crossing.
Locomotives of the Coast Line. A photo roster.--42
Steam is giving way to diesel power on the road famous for its dual-service Pacifics.
Not listed in the Official Guide. One-man railroad.-48
A TRAINS reader runs the Illinois Midland.
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