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Trains Magazine 1950 September L&N #1985 UP shuttles 2400 cars a day Hump yard N
Trains September 1950 Vol 10 No 11
CONTENTS
Cover photo. By A. Thieme.----1
Louisville & Nashville's Lima-built Berkshire No. 1985 thunders out of Norton, Va.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By D. P. Morgan.6
Three and a flock of singles . . . By W. W. Abbey.-10
Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte.
2-10-4 to Revelstoke. By David P. Morgan.--14
Montreal-built Selkirks power Canadian Pacific's Dominion over mountains where streamstyled Hudsons fear to tread.
"I want a roomette on the Broadway." By Al Rung.-22
Intelex is what they call the gimmick that speeds PRR reservations out of New York.
Cherry River Boom & Lumber. By E. L. Thompson.-24
This West Virginia logging railroad has found black diamonds in them thar hills.
Photo section. A pictorial panorama of railroading.-27
Fairbanks-Morse action on the UP, 27; Seaboard freight in Georgia,28; Motive power transition on the Alton Route, 28; C&O on C.T.C., 29; Reading passenger diesels, 29; Santa Fe railfan special, 30-31; Interstate 2-6-6-2, 32; Mount Hood No. 1, 32; North Western RDC's, 33; Virginian cabooses, 34; L&N Pacific, 35; Lehigh Valley freight, 35.
Prairie State railroad. By David A. Strassman. --36
Illinois Terminal built a class 1 railroad on a traction empire, but diesels and streamliners have not doused an interurban flavor.
Pacifics to Placid. By Philip R. Hastings.---42
Oil-burning 4-6-2's handle traffic on a New York Central branch in the Adirondacks.
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