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Trains Magazine 1999 April Kansas City Union Station New diesel plant BNSF engin
Trains Vol 59 No 4 April 1999
Table of Contents
6From the Editors
Aiding the preservation cause
10Railway Post Office
Letters from our readers
14Potomac Pundit
Columnist Don Phillips
16Diverging Approach
Columnist Ed Ellis
8Railroad News
Events, trends, people
23Scanner
Railroad-by-railroad news items
24 Power Desk
High times in Hornell
28Railroad News Photos
This month's colorful railroad scene
26 New Locomotives from Schenectady
High-tech GM diesels are being assembled near a city long associated with Alco.
by Scott A. Hartley
34 Thunder Above, Thunder Below
A roaring Snake River offers a thunderous backdrop for a Union Pacific freight train.
by J. David Ingles
36 Running the Needles Sub
An engineer's look at one of the most extreme stretches of railroad in the U.S.-BNSF's hot line between Barstow and Needles, Calif.
by E.D. Russell
44 On Location: Colorado's Joint Line
The only north-south railroad between Kansas and Utah offers plenty of BNSF and UP action against the backdrop of the Rockies.
by Steve Patterson
50 TRAINS Photo Contest Winners
A variety of spectacular photographs, from Conrail along the Hudson River to the grandeur of Cincinnati Union Terminal.
60 The Trophy in the Tower
A memorialto a railroader, housed in one of the few remaining CSX interlocking towers.
by Jay Potter
62 COVER STORY:
Give the People a Monument
Jarvis Hunts Kansas City Union Station was not only a Western crossroads but was also the heart of America's biggest small town.
by Peter A. Hansen
74 Readers' Platform: Safety and the Next Generation-Be Worried
Despite the railroad industry's advancements, it has not changed its approach to training.
by Geoffrey H. Doughty
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