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Trains Magazine 1995 April Tower tribute Arkansas Narrow gauge today
Trains 1995 April
Battle of the Tongue River
28 In Montana, plans for a rail shortcut for coal have drawn fire.
by Kyle Brehm
The Interlocking Tower
33 A stirring poem leads off our special "Tower Tribute" section.
by Nancy G. Westerfield
A Learning Place
34 A Wabash's tower at Jacksonville, I11., was a railroad classroom.
by J. David Ingles
Playing Out the String
36 CSX has the last great stand of 6 rural towers, 15 on the old Baltimore & Ohio, centered at Cumberland.
by Brian Paulus
Selected Railroad Reading
44 Tower stories include a revelation 4 in Illinois, memories from Iowa, and hooping it up in Connecticut.
Photo Section
48 A selection of interlocking tower 8 photos, inside and out, from yesterday and today.
High Times at Mission Tower
56 Visit this busy, almost all-passen- 6 ger Los Angeles junction, where Metrolink has brought a renaissance.
by Elrond Lawrence
Going, Going .. .
62 Fewer than 200 active towers re- main, and their number keeps dropping. Where can you find them?
by J. David Ingles
The David P. Morgan Files: What Price Sleep?
64 When the Burlington Route introduced the Slumbercoach.
by David P. Morgan
Big Bang, No Theory
66 Steam-locomotive boiler explo- sions were very unforgiving.
by Ed King
Arkansas Lime, With a Twist
70 A narrow-gauge line where you'd 0 least expect it-in the Ozarks.
by Barton Jennings
Hot Spots: Delray Jct., Detroit, Michigan
74 An old brick tower guards a junc- `t tion that sees trains of 8 railroads.
by Eric Blasko
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