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Trains Magazine 2006 February LIRR Jack London Square Alco automobile UP attic
Trains 2006 February
43 The L.I.R.R. they love to hate
The Long Island Rail Road is the way to work and the way home for more than a quarter-million commuters every day. Joe Greenstein
FEATURES
28 Train time at Jack London Square
When trains run down the middle of the street in this busy tourist part of Oakland, Calif., pedestrians and cars watch out.
Fred Matthews
34 Union Pacific's museum and archives
Council Bluffs, Iowa, is home to the company museum as well as the stuff the UP just couldn't bear to throw out. David Lustig
38 Alco's attempt at an automobile
The American Locomotive Co. was famous for many of its products, but did you know it built a car, too? Eric Powell
40 Map of the Month: The Pennsylvania today
What became of the late great Pennsylvania Railroad? A lot of it is still out there. Our foldout map shows where. Bill Metzger
56 The Hippie train
How CN's Supercontinental earned an apt nickname. Paul Ullrich
NEWS
10 Railroad News & Photos
Amtrak's board fires President David Gunn. Now what?
14 Don Phillips
Great job, Mr. Gunn. Don't let the door knob hit you.
20 Technology
All about those yellow Sperry rail defect detection trucks.
22 Locomotives
Goat loses its head; UP drives a truck; CP's beaver on the run.
24 Passenger
Ridership winners and losers among Amtrak's trains.
26 City Rail
New Mexico commuter service is set to begin.
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office 64 Fan Trip
66 Ask Trains
68 Preservation
70 New Products
76 Gallery
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