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Trains Magazine 2003 June Paradise Lost Tennessee PAss Homestake Saluda Sunnysid
Trains Vol 63 No 6 June 2003
Table of Contents
COVER STORY
40 Paradise Lost
Tennessee Pass: the legendary mountain railroad of the Rio Grande that's the poster child for difficult routes idled by mergers. Will it ever return to life? Mark W. Hemphill
FEATURES
28 Map of the Month: Western winners
We know railroad traffic has grown ... but how much? 4nd where? 4nd which lines have done the best, and which the worst? Our map compares Western main lines 1979 to 2001.
30 Railroad Blueprint: PRR's Sunnyside Yard
World's largest passenger-car yard in the mid-1950s, Sunnyside served long-distance and commuter trains in New York City. Historic photos by James G. La Vake and an on-the-spot report that goes inside its operations, written in 1956. E. John Long
Trackside Guide: Detroit, Michigan
No. 3 in our pull-out guides to North America's busiest railroad hubs untangles the amazing complexity of Motown. Five Class Is, three short lines, two steel mills, auto plants too numerous to count ... it's all here with detailed maps and data.
NEWS
8 Railroad News & Photos
First 9/11, now Iraq. Railroads racket up security
12 Don Phillips
How CSX tarnished its reputation, and NS came out a hero
16 Larry Kaufman
Logic and Congress: two mutually exclusive concepts
22 Locomotives
After millions of miles, ex-Amtrak F40s just getting started
24 Passenger
Dome cars galore: excursion trains make big improvements
26 City Rail
CSX, Amtrak, MARC, and VRE settle their differences
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
5 Railway Post Office
56 Railroad Reading
62 Ask Trains
64 Preservation
66 New Products
74 50 Years Ago in Trains
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