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Trains Magazine 2007 March Secrets of urban terminal Trains vs trucks India
Trains 2007 March
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Trains versus trucks the decisive decade
In the 1950s, the trucking industry got the upper hand on the railroading business and sent a stern message: Adapt or die
Jim Giblin
60
Saturday night fever
The night CSX ran Amtrak's
Auto Train ran on time, from
Sanford, Fla., to Lorton, Va.
Fred W Frailey
42
Map of the month: Whatever became of New York Central?
The fate of the jade green tean - Cornelius Vanderbilt's jewel - rests mostly with two coal roads from Virginia
62
Railroad Reading
A phone call and a confrontation are enough to make a Burlington Northern clerk change jobs in the late '70s Charles W. Randolph
45
Jake's world
Life in and around a downtown metropolitan railroadrstation is a place where reality mimics classic film noir
Benjamin B. Bachman
80
Gallery
Readers' photographs of the New Haven atop Poughkeepsie Bridge, a nighttime dome-car ride, Canadian Pacific approaching a tunnel, and Chinese steam in silhouette
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Deccan Odyssey, India by deluxe train
A week spent on board a luxury train in India provides a window into a fascinating country and railroading as it is nowhere else on the planet Jeffrey T. Schultz
12 Ethanol traffic
34 Trains versus trucks 42 New York Central today
45 Secrets of an urban terminal
54 Deccan Odyssey
60 On time "Auto Train"
NEWS
12 News & Photos
Increasing ethanol traffic raises safety concerns
16 Don Phillips 24 Roy Blanchard 26 Technology
Paving the way for the rails with asphalt sub-ballast
28 Locomotive
Union Pacific experiments with ways to clean diesel exhaust; Canadian Pacific gets more GEs
30 Passenger
Amtrak gives passengers a taste of the future.with a prototype diner-lounge car
32 City Rail
Must all commuter-rail stations look the same? California's Metrolink doesn't think so
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office 68 Fantrip
70 Preservation
72 Ask TRAINS 74 Products
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Gallery
When the loop shuts down for maintenance in Tehachapi, Monolith, Calif., comes to life with Warbonnets and more Steve Crise
Mentioned on the
COVER
12 UP's licensing battle 92 Watching trains in Georgia
26 Trackwork technology
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office 92 Fantrip
94 Ask TRAINS
96 Preservation
98 Products
NEWS
12 Railroad News & Photos
UP's licensing battle; Alexander Kummant interview
16 Don Phillips 24 Tom Murray
26 Technology
When track time is tight, technology steps in
28 Locomotives
UP's "untouched" units: Get 'em while you can
30 Passenger
New Illinois trains required months of preparation
32 City Rail
Top 10 U.S. rail transit agencies by ridership
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