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Trains Magazine 1994 October Canadian National in N Alberta Dome cars 50 yrs
Trains 1994 October
elebrating Rails and Parks
3Santa Fe, Amtrak, and the Grand 2 Canyon Railway team up to honor a 75-year-old tradition.
by Alfred Runte
Long Island's Well-Kept Secret
34 /A Parlor cars still haul Long Island Rail Road passengers to The Hamptons and Montauk.
by Scott Hartley
Alberto's Deadly Legacy
36 When tropical storm Alberto drenched the Southeast, CSX and Norfolk Southern were hit hard.
by Kevin P. Keefe
Thunder in Peace River Country
3 Q Heavy-duty railroading in north-
V ern Alberta: Canadian National's Peace River Division.
by Leslie S. Kozma & Charles W. Bohi
Martin Blomberg, designer extraordinaire
46 His design for Electro-Motive Di- vision's famous locomotive truck has held up for half a century.
by Max Ephraim Jr.
Photo Section: A Season of Color
50 Images of railroading amid the splendor of autumn foliage. Indian Summer of the City
Streamliners
5 Q When Union Pacific squeezed V virtually its entire passenger service into a single gargantuan train.
by Fred W. Frailey
The New Housatonic Railroad
66 Piece by piece, an entrepreneur has assembled a promising new railroad in southern New England.
by Scott Hartley
The Vista-Dome at 50
70 Cyrus Osborn's winning idea of 1944 for the ultimate rail sightseeing vehicle carries on today.
by Karl Zimmermann
An Amoskeag Adieu
74 /A A "hail and farwell" is due Amo- skeag Corp. and the Dumaines for a historic chapter in railroading.
by Carl R. Byron
Hot Spots: San Antonio, Texas
76 The downtown area of this old city sees many UP and SP trains. by Carl M. Lehman
DEPARTMENTS
6Editorial
8Railway Post Office
12 Potomac Pundit
14 Railroad News
18 Arrivals & Departures 26 Railroad News Photos 78 Readers' Platform
80 ABC's of Railroading 84 Reviews
95 New Products
96 Schedules
100 Observations
104 Classified Advertising 110 Photo Finish
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