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Trains Magazine 2008 August Union PAcific L&N Rooming houses Buffalo NY CSX NS T
Trains Vol 68 No 8 August 2008
Table of Contents
FEATURES
43 Cover Story: Union Pacific vs. the mudslide
How a big railroad tackled a massive Oregon mudslide that took out its main line not once but twice
Martin E. Hansen
32 Boarders, but never bored
I watched the world of railroading evolve from the porch of my grandparents' rooming house on the Louisville & Nashville
Ron Flanary
44 Busiest station in the world
Shinjuku Station keeps 3.5 million people a day moving through Tokyo. And you thought your commute was hectic!
Scott Lothes
52 Map of the Month: Buffalo, N.Y., in 1942
Trains were drawn to Buffalo like iron filings to magnets. Here is the city at its most tangled, when 11 trunk line railroads and three short lines moved thousands of cars a day Bill Metzger
54 Dissecting a railfan
Was 1920s silent film star Fatty Arbuckle a railfan? You decide David Lustig
56 Railroad Reading
Missed by a gnat's eyelash: Experience a near collision through the eyes of a railroad deputy special agent on a ride-along in Texas
Tom Kline
78 Gallery
Santa Fe's Barstow Yard, Canadian Pacific in the Rockies, the circus train crossing the Wabash River, Alcos on the Piedmont & Northern, two B39-8s bracket three B30-7s in Worcester, Mass. Assorted photographers
ON THE COVER: When a slide took out UP's main line in Oregon, the railroad moved a mountain to get it back. UP photo
8 CSX, NS mull new corridors
23 Can freight, transit play nice?
24 UP moved a mountain
32 L&N rooming house
42 World's busiest train station: Tokyo
52 Map of the month: Buffalo, N.Y., 1942
54 Vaudeville and the Milwaukee Road
56 We just missed hitting a cement truck
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