Trains Magazine 2008 April Railroads in the streets Scranto map Charlotte light
Trains 2008 April
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Railroads in the streets
Running freight trains down the middle of a street seems absurd now, but it made sense when the tracks were laid. Learn where and why railroads ran in the streets ... in the past as well as the present
Aaron Isaacs
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Scranton's tangled steel web
This northeastern Pennsylvania railroad center was a maze of tracks - as this 1939 map shows
Dave Crosby and Bill Metzger
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TRAINS/Canon Photo Contest 2007
This year we asked you to "Think Small" and you gave us great images. Check out our choices, and start planning for next year's contest
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Crossroads of New England
With five railroads and 5,000 people, could White River Junction, Vt., be the best-served railroad town in America?
Charles W. Bohi
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Railroad Reading The last of its kind: Snowden Bridge still stands proud as one of Montana's greatest engineering feats Chester Wesman
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Gallery
Wisconsin Central SD45s lead an ore train near Stevens
Point, Wis., in 1995
Ray Weart
6 Triple-tracking Cajon
17 Michigan GE fleet
20 Amtrak ridership
21 Charlotte's light rail
22 Railroads in the streets
32 Map: Scranton's web
34 Photo contest winners
42 Best rail service?
58 Newest U.S. steam
NEWS
6 News & Photos Triple-tracking Cajon Pass
10 Don Phillips 14 Tom Murray
16 Technology
Intermodal alternatives to RoadRailer
17 Locomotives
Old GEs likely to leave Michigan soon
20 Passenger
Amtrak ridership surges, study urges expansion
21 City Rail
Light rail warmly received in Charlotte, N.C.
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
5 Railway Post Office 54 Ask TRAINS
56 Fantrip
58 Preservation
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