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Trains Magazine 2004 September Big Boy California Passenger service
Trains Vol 64 No 9 September 2004
Table of Contents
COVER STORY
26 Big Boy or Big Mistake?
Did Super Power Steam make it easy for diesels to sweep the field? Which railroads got it right; which got it wrong? Ed King
FEATURES
24 Moonset at Peru
The setting moon and a Union Pacific Overland Route freight aligned ever so briefly in one photographer's lens. Mel Patrick
42 Railroad art as it was meant to be
When Mitch Markovitz paints railroad scenes, he communicates the very essence of all that is railroading. Kathi Kube
52 Iraq postscript
An American railroader ponders his experience after working on the war front of railroading. Rick Degman
54 California today ... the nation tomorrow?
How's this for irony? The state that glorified the freeway is staking its future on passenger trains. Bob Johnston
68 Map of the month: Iowa abandonments
Once, no point in Iowa was more than 12 miles from a railroad. But deregulation and mergers fueled abandonments and spinoffs.
NEWS
8 Railroad News & Photos
The upper Midwest gets a taste of steam in all its glory
12 Don Phillips
Don to the future TRAINS editor: Don't mess with my magazine!
18 Locomotives
The F59PH, commuter engine pioneer, may be on borrowed time
20 Passenger
What's holding up passenger trains? We chart a week of delays
22 City Rail
Baltimore's MTA reopens part of its southern route; Caltrain launches Baby Bullet express service
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