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Trains Magazine 2001 August Helpers how locoomotives defy gravity PRR photos
Trains August 2001
FEATURES
22 Forbidden Para Cuba, until recentdisely off-limits to U.S. visitors, is a time machine into American-style, backwoods steam railroading.Karl Zimmermann
25 Veteran PRR Historical Society Honorsdf Gil Reid
painter recognizeor his achievement in artwork of the Pennsylvania Railroad.Robert S. McGonigal
30 Men and Machine Problems mar Spokane, Portland & Seattle 4-8-4 No. 700's first big trip in years, but her dedicated crew remains unbowed.David Lustig
36 Pennsy Photo The "Standard Railroad of the World" in photographs from Horseshoe Curve and the Rockville Bridge, behind steam and under wires.
42 Cover Story: Helpers how they work
From double heading to distributed power, railroads use extra locomotives to lift trains up steep grades.Jack Wheelihan
52 Cover Story: Helpers: Where They Are Though distributed power offers big advantages under certain conditions, there's still a future for manned helpers.Tom Murray
62 Selected Railroad Reading The last Wheeling & Lake Erie boxcar, how not to fire a Grand Trunk Western steam engine, and cooking dinner on a Santa Fe F45.
66 Readers' Platform: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate Snappy slogans are no substitute for two-way communication between railroads and the public.Leigh E. Morris
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