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Trains Magazine 2003 August Mike's Big railroadBeaumont Hill Confessions div eng
Trains Vol 63 No 8 August 2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER STORY
28 Mike's Big Railroad
Remember little Kansas City Southern? It crossed Texas, bought Mexico's most important railroad, and became a transcontinental player. How did it do that? Fred W. Frailey
FEATURES
42 Life on the Line: A division engineer's story
Railway engineering-the art and science of locating, building, and maintaining bridges, track, and signals-rarely gets attention. It should. It's heroic. This author tells you why. R. M. Bailey
50 Map of the Month: NS transformed
Norfolk Southern's sphere of influence now extends far beyond the last mile of track it owns. We track 20 years of growth and change.
52 Dead Ringers
Can a Russian locomotive in the Ukraine pass for an American locomotive in Wisconsin? You be the judge. J. W. Swanberg
56 Railroad Blueprint: SP's Beaumont Hill
Everything changed on Southern Pacific's big climb east of Los Angeles in the 1950s-except the challenge of the Hill. Don Sims
NEWS
12 Railroad News & Photos
Senate squabble on Amtrak: This time, it's personal
16 Don Phillips
We've been here before: Nothing big will change for Amtrak
20 Larry Kaufman
Railroads don't "earn their cost of capital" ... and don't want to
22 Locomotives
Coming in 2004: Alstom's new PL42AC for commuter railroads
24 Passenger
Long-awaited Turboliners now rocket along the Hudson River
26 City Rail
What a mess! New York City gets a hard lesson on fare increases
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office
64 Railroad Reading
74 Ask Trains
76 Preservation
80 New Products
90 50 Years Ago in Trains
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