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Trains Magazine 1950 November 15 page photo section Making way for Old Man River
Trains November 1950 Vol 11 No 1
CONTENTS
Cover photo. By Wallace W. Abbey.---1
Burlington's California Zephyr backs into Chicago's Union Station.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson6
12 hours with 6009. Photos by W. A. Akin Jr.--15
Climb aboard a New York Central 4-8-4 at Harmon and ride with the engine crev, ; to Buffalo.
Making way for Old Man River.----20
The Burlington relocates its line and opens a new tunnel.
To Alaska someday. By Linn H. Westcott.--22
The Pacific Great Eastern has hopes of driving northward through Canada's wilderness.
Photo section. Ten years of railroad progress in pictures.29
Union Pacific 4-12-2, 29; New York's Grand Central Terminal, 30; Proviso Yard, 31; Burlington freight, 31; Seaboard centipede diesel, 32; NYC Fairbanks-Morse diesel, 32; Pennsylvania sharknose diesel, 32; Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4, 33; Chesapeake & Ohio turbine-electric, 33; Union Pacific freight on Sherman Hill, 34-35; Great Northern electric, 36; Pennsylvania steam turbine, 36; Alco-GE gas turbine, 36; Rock Island's Cimarron River bridge, 37; Norfolk & Western's Elkhorn Tunnel, 37; Chicago & North Western C. T. C. dispatcher, 38; City of Los Angeles at West Chicago, 38; Wabash trains as Clapper, Mo., 39; Clinchfield coal train, 39; Vista dome on the California Zephyr, 40; Budd's RDC-1, 40; Burlington's Galesburg yard, 41; Welding rails, 41; Illinois Central freight at Coleman, III., 42; City of San Francisco, 43; Pere Marquette streamliner, 43.
Millions for signals. By Wallace W. Abbey.--45
An I. C. C. order of 1947 is causing railroads to revamp their schedules and signal budgets.
A matter of paper profits. By John T. Cunningham.-50
Trucks carry part of the lading which "made" the Morristown & Erie, but now M&E carries coal.
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