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Trains Magazine 1952 June Chessie Goes on a Liquid Diet Trains & Travel Sherman
Trains Magazine 1952 June Chessie Goes on a Liquid Diet Trains & Travel
66 Pages
Railroad news and editorial comment. By David P. Morgan.6
Rio Grande Southern calls it quits. --14
Photos by Robert W. Richardson.
Colorado's largest independent narrow-gauge finally has ceased operations, but it had a hard time doing it!
Sherman Hill. By Lucius Beebe.---16
This hump in the main line of the Union Pacific is one of the nation's strongholds of steam that has been stormed relatively little by the "pestilence of diesel."
Notable feats of railroad engineering: Hoosac Tunnel.-20
The history of the Boston & Maine's long bore is itself long and filled with notable events.
Chessie goes on a liquid diet. By David P. Morgan.-22
The railroad that originates more coal traffic than any other, and which uses gigantic steam locomotives to pull it, is switching to diesels.
Famous steam locomotives: Rock Island's 5000's. --28
Until the day of the diesel, the Rock Island's freights were pulled by a notable class of 4-8-4's.
Photo section.-------31
Again this month the editors bring you their selection of photographs old and new of this far-flung railroad business.
The press previews the Congressional.-50
By Wallace W. Abbey.
Ride along on a demonstration run of a new train - the Budd-built streamliner that is now running between Washington and New York on the Pennsylvania.
Tank-town tutor. A nostalgic one-pager.--55
How well you remember these moments in your own youth!
Oh, to be a steward!-----56
Read about some of the strange requests that dining-car stewards on the
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