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Trains Magazine 2007 December Alaska BNSF Marias Pass snowsheds CPR DM&E
Trains 2007 December
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Warm hearts in the IC-y Heartland
For 36 years, the CN/Illinois Central Santa Train has been bringing Christmas cheer to rural central Illinois.
Kathi Kube
58
Winter in the New River Gorge
Trains shine their lights through the valleys that sunlight doesn't touch in the dead of winter.
Scott Lothes
42
One last spin
When steam-powered narrow-gauge rotary OY made her final run, she put on a show in the snow.
Tom Cerwin
64
Railroad Reading Christmas on the Klamath: Whether on the job or not, there are always surprises on the railroad. This time I'm a passenger headed home for the holidays.
Dan Maher
48
Fifty below at North Pole
When winter strikes the Alaska Railroad, nothing wants to move - except the falling mercury.
Art Chase
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Gallery
Rio Grande in Minturn, Colo. in 1988; Union Pacific at Tucumcari, N.M., in 2006; and a New York Central engineer's view in Rockwood, Mich., in 1966.
Assorted photographers
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Map of the Month: BNSF snowsheds on Marias Pass
BNSF still uses 11 snowsheds the Great Northern built on its St. Paul, Minn.-Seattle transcontinental main line. David Lustig
10 What's ahead for
CPR/DM&E?
18 Why CSX moved its
dispatchers
24 Bridge integrity
32 Illinois Central
Santa Train
48 Alaska: Moving freight at 50 below!
56 BNSF's Marias Pass snowsheds
58 New River Gorge
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office 76 Ask TRAINS
78 Fantrip
80 Preservation
82 Products
NEWS
10 Railroad News & Photos
How will CPR/DM&E combo reshuffle the deck?
14 Don Phillips 22 Roy Blanchard
24 Technology
FRA `explains, amplifies' bridge-inspection needs
26 Locomotive
MotivePower enters genset-building market
28 Passenger
Maine's Downeaster scores two successes
30 City Rail
Light rail relies on the tried and true to fight snow
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