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Trains Magazine 2002 August Traffic war in Texas C&NW Steam helpers NS-CSX
Trains Vol 62 No 8 August 2002
Table of Contents
FEATURES
42 Union Pacific's desert bloom
34 Real Railroaders Never Quit
Floods, hurricanes, mudslides, 36 years of civil war. So what? Guatemala has a railroad to run. Douglas W. Polinder
66 Uphill Both Ways
Helper districts weren't required only on mountain grades. Case in point: Omaha Road's at Hudson, Wisconsin, in the waning days of steam. Photographs by David Plowden
72 Map of the Month: C&NW's system in 1930
Omaha Road gave Chicago & North Western access to the Twin Cities and Duluth, and helped boost the system mileage to 10,195, seventh largest in the U.S.
NEWS
12 Railroad News & Photos
Change for BNSF; new lines in Gary, Ind., and 4ustralia
15 Don Phillips: Potomac Pundit
Amtrak's new (David) Gunn is a straight-shooter
19 Larry Kaufman: Industry Insider
AAR's advertising campaign tells a never-told tale
26 Locomotives
EMD's H goes to sea; last F-unit fleet falls David Lustig
30 Passenger
Curtains for the Twilight's sleeping car Bob Johnston
32 City Rail
Caltrain to build a four-track speedway G. Mac Sebree
DEPARTMENTS
6 From the Editor
Do railfans make good railroaders? Well, yes.
7 Railway Post Office
Yards; the Downeaster; LV routing; airborne railfanning
74 Railroad Reading
Derailments ... cornering, etc.: 1950s MoPac memories
78 Ask TRAINS
"Fallen Flag" railroads; rusty couplers; EMD GP384Cs
82 Preservation
Pennsylvania group honors famous rail photographers
86 New Products New books and videos
96 Hot Shots
Recreating a classic technique; Blue Ridge excursion
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