Trains Magazine 2007 September Milwaukee 261 Train watching Flatonia TX TN RRs
Trains Vol 67 No 9 September 2007
Table of Contents
FEATURES
26 MILW 261: The Energizer Bunny of steam!
How the big 4-8-4 polishes the main line year after year.
Steve Glischinski
50 Railroading in the woods and lakes, one car at a time
Finger Lakes Railway fights to win business in Upstate New York.
Karl Zimmermann
34 Perlman's seventies success
After leaving a tattered Penn Central, Alfred Perlman showed the industry what he could do by turning around the Western Pacific.
Rush Loving Jr.
58 Railroad Reading
My life on 611: I was lucky - very lucky to get experiences like few others had with Norfolk Southern's steam program.
Cheri George
42 Map of the Month: Tennessee's railroads, 1949 / 2007
None of the railroad names from 1949 survive, but many important routes still remain in service.
Ralcon Wagner
80 Gallery
Canadian National near Chicago at night, Southern Railway F units in Tennessee, and BNSF in storm light in Williams Junction, Ariz.
Various photographers
45 Facing the future
Chattanooga-based Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
looks toward the future with a new mantra: `Go big or go home.'
Jim Wrinn
< ON THE COVER: Minneapolis-based Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 keeps on steaming. Steve Glischinski photo
18 Visit Transportation Technology Center
22 VIA's "Canadian"
26 Milwaukee Road 261
34 How Perlman saved the Western Pacific
42 Map: Tennessee railroads,1949 and now
45 Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
50 New York state kind of short line
68 Texas train-watching
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