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Trains Magazine 1999 October Texas' Chemical Coast Maine North woods Iron Road L
Trains Vol 59 No 10 October 1999
Table of Contents
6From the Editors
Take heart, Ed; remember J.W.B.
10Railway Post Office
Letters from our readers
14Potomac Pundit
Columnist Don Phillips
16Diverging Approach
Columnist Ed Ellis
18Railroad News
Events, trends, people
23Scanner
Railroad-by-railroad news items
24 Power Desk
Curing them of 16-710G3 blues
28Railroad News Photos
This month's colorful railroad scene
26 Late Trips Mar Sacramento Convention
National Railway Historical Society and Railway & Loco- motive Historical Society coordinate a successful fete during Railfair '99
by J. David Ingles
34 Vigilance on the Third Trick
Railroading the old-fashioned way at CSX's Miller Tower in West Virginia can be a tough job, but someone still has to do it.
by Kevin P. Keefe
36 COVER STORY: Texas' Chemical Coast
Spotlighted by UP's 1997 serv- ice crisis, the many manufacturing plants and dense trackage of the Houston area are centered around a commodity crucial to railroads.
by J.Parker Lamb
50 Photo Section
Classic photos of Sotherns Carolina Special amid fall color, plus Wabash's Blue Bird and freights on Soo Line and Columbus & Greenville, and a night portrait on Arkansas short line DeQueen & Eastern.
56 Moment of Truth
Waiting at trackside, camera in hand, can be a dreary, insidious ordeal, but the payoff is worth it. by Benjamin B. Bachman
60 Iron Road Through the North Wood
Bangor & Canadian Aroostook Pacific lines comprise the heart of a new railroad empire in Maine and eastern Canada.
by Mike Confalone
66 On Location: Lake Erie Showdown
Between Buffalo and Cleveland, trains go head to head on CSX's Water Level Route and Norfolk Southern's former Nickel Plate Road.
by Ryan Fisher
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