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Trains Magazine 1951 July Shooting Stars on the Sierra Operation streamliner CIt
Trains Magazine 1951 July Shooting Stars on the Sierra SEE PHOTO - bottom cover has a small mark
58 Pages
Cover photo. By Walter H. Thrall Jr.---1
Southern Pacific's narrow-gauge 4-6-0 No. 18 with a caboose hop between Keeler and Owenyo, Calif.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By the editors.6
The old Rat Hole. By D. H. Noble and D. B. Inman.-14
Take a photographic look at what used to be the biggest headache for the Southern Railway - the CNO&TP.
Shooting stars on the Sierra. By Glenn Beier.--18
The Sierra Railroad in California is one of Hollywood's favorite "locations."
Operation streamliner. By Walter H. Thrall Jr.--20
The author, a Union Pacific fireman, takes you aboard the City of Los Angeles and gives you his seat in the cab.
Metamorphosis of the T-1. By Bert Pennypacker.-28
The Pennsylvania took delivery of 52 4-4-4-4's, restyled them, and then switched to diesels.
Photo section. An album of railroad photos.32
Night at Southern Pacific's Houston depot, 32; CPR's Dominion, 33; CPR diesel in the snow, 33; Central Vermont freight, 34; Mail pickup at Sheldon, Ind., 34; L&N freights, 35; EJ&E at Eola, Ill., 35; Nickel Plate doubleheader, 36; Frisco's Firefly, 36; Missouri Pacific freight at Little Rock, 37; Pittsburg & Shawmut, 38; Cotton Belt 4-6-0, 38; Clinch-field 4-6-6-4, 39; Milwaukee Road passenger trains at Canton, 39.
They shed no tears. By Roob H. Allie.---40
When the Detroit & Mackinac ran its last passenger train everybody made a party out of the occasion.
U. S. locomotives across the sea. By Geoffrey H. Bell47
A scrapbook page of American-built locomotives in service in France and Britain.
Eight-wheel standard locomotives.----48
Four plates from an old Rogers Locomotive Works catalog, showing different examples of the 4-4-0 type.
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