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Trains Magazine 1953 September Trains & Travel Send us empties now
Trains September 1953 Vol 13 No 11
CONTENTS
Railroad news and editorial comment. By David P. Morgan.6
12,000 cars a day. Photos by Philip R. Hastings.-22
Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa., is the hat-spot of freight classification on the vast Pennsylvania Railroad. Come visit Enola in pictures.
Here comes the Komet! By Wallace W. Abbey.--28
Look out, Texas! The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad is sending a fast freight your way from St. Louis!
Famous steam locomotives: Homemade compound.-32
Here is the story of a most outstanding engine in the East - Norfolk & Western's big Y6.
"Send us empties - now!" By David P. Morgan.--35
In an office in Washington men play checkers with freight cars on a board as big as the U. S. Here is the story of the A. A. R.'s Car Service Division.
Photo section.------39
A pictorial definition of a freight train.
Notable feats of railroad engineering:
Bypass around bedlam. By Wallace W. Abbey.-58
Albany was the bottleneck, the Castleton Cutoff the answer. This is the story of a New York Central project that allowed the freight to roll.
Case history of a spud train. By David P. Morgan.-60
Extra 261 East is a Santa Fe hotshot loaded with Kern County potatoes. Get aboard - it's headed east.
How to build a box car.-----65
Pullman-Standard has constructed and sold over 50,000 PS-1 box cars. Here is how it puts them together.
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