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Trains Magazine 1994 June WWII Days Troop Trains RRs on the home front WWII
Trains 1994 June
Railroads of World War II: The Joy and Thunder Days
32 America's railroads hauled epic quantities of soldiers and supplies as they helped turn the tide on the wartime home front.
by David Jones
Selected Railroad Reading
3 Q Recollections of railroad life dur- V ing the war years, told mostly by the people who lived it.
Once Upon a Time in TRAINS: Herr Goebbels was Wrong
43From the pages of our patriotic July 1944 issue comes pictorial proof that the Axis powers were destined to go down to defeat.
Serving the Nation
44 How railroads used patriotic advertising to tell the story of their contributions to the war effort.
by Douglas Nelson
Photo Section: Amtrak Superstars
48 Q General Electric's "Genesis" diesel locomotive and the Swedish X2000 and German ICE trainsets helped give Amtrak a bold new image in 1993.
Regionals in Review: Yankee Independence
56 How Providence & Worcester grew from an obscure New Haven branch line to a 400-mile New England powerhouse.
by Scott Hartley
Indian Summer
for Kootenay Cabooses
66 Ride a classic caboose and savor the end of an era along a picturesque CP Rail branch line in southern British Columbia.
by Adolf Hungry Wolf
TRAINS Hot Spots: Crawford Hill, Nebraska
72 Burlington Northern puts on a great show with high-horsepower diesels and coal trains at Nebraska's most famous train-watching site.
by Jack Armstrong
Readers' Platform:
Educators Ignore the Railroads
74 At too many of today's colleges and universities, future transportation professionals aren't learning about railroading as a career.
by Eric Benson
DEPARTMENTS
6Editorial
8Railway Post Office
12 Potomac Pundit
14 Railroad News
18 Arrivals & Departures 25 Railroad News Photos 76 ABC's of Railroading 78 Reviews
84 Schedules
88 Observations
91 Classified Advertising 98 Photo Finish
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