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Trains Vol No 7 July 2002
Table of Contents
FEATURES
48 Statio of the stars
30 Wrong train running?
Carload pays the freight; intermodal gets the green light. Unfair? Not if you want to make money. Tom Murray
36 The yard: railroading's hidden half (part Il)
Automated hump yards are the best tool railroads have to build trains and impose order on the thousands of cars that move across the country every day. Edwin Kraft
48 Cover Story: Station of the Stars
A hard-boiled reporter gets the inside-and outside-dish on Los Angeles Union Station, which in its heyday saw the comings and goings of Hollywoods stars and starlets, and is today the West Coasts premier passenger terminal
62 Map of the Month: passenger trains, 1960 vs. 1971
The U.S. lost half its passenger mileage between 1960 and the start of Amtrak in 1971. Then it was halved again.
NEWS
10 Railroad News & Photos
California's 4lameda Corridor opens; Amtrak, Metrolink accidents illustrate trains' survivability; VMV shuts down
13 Don Phillips: Potomac Pundit
Alameda Corridor is the model for something more
17 Larry Kaufman: Industry Insider
Amtrak isn't going away, and Congress likely will do little
22 Locomotives
Alaska likes SD70M4Cs; UP clears the air David Lustig
24 Passenger
Texas Eagle volunteers; Amtrak changes Bob Johnston
28 City Rail
M4RC to Frederick; Metra depot facelift G. Mac Sebree
DEPARTMENTS
6 From the Editor Who pays for safety?
7 Railway Post Office
New Haven color; RoadRailers; rethinking safety
64 Railroad Reading
American-style railroading in Jordan; Erie-Lackawanna cab ride; creative clearance testing in Washington, D.C.
70 Ask TRAINS
Genesis headlights; steam-locomotive injectors; Rutland
74 Preservation
Tourist railroads expect more riders; B&O's big bash
78 New Products
We recommend: Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad
88 Hot Shots
Dawn from the cab of a EuroCity train; an SP survivor
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