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Trains Magazine 2008 February Eastern Corridors China Powder River Basin Moving
Trains Vol 68 No 2 February 2008
Table of Contents
FEATURES
30 Cover Story: Eastern corridors
In going for more long-haul traffic on its busy Chicago-Florida route, CSX builds capacity on one leg of its triangle
Jim Wrinn
50 First locomotives
'Hay-powered' engines once powered the railroads. On one California line, they still do Byron Lemmon
60 Railroad Reading
Other duties as assigned: Taking the D&H president's car through a snowstorm Geoffrey H. Doughty
52 Hot iron, cold steel
These trains of molten iron are - literally - the hottest things on the rails
J.D. Santucci
78 Gallery
Central Oregon & Pacific, Rock Island, Strasburg Rail Road, Georgia Northeastern Assorted photographers
38 The slim princess
Steam may be gone on China's main lines, but on this narrow-gauge line, a fleet of 0-8-0s still labors
Gary A. Hunter
56 Difference of decades
The Powder River Basin 1991-2007
Tom Danneman
42 Kool-Aid, creosote, and the Lackawanna
These ingredients were irresistible to one young train-watcher at Paterson Junction John Roskoski
58 Map of the Month: Natural resources in KCS country
Mines, fields, and forests kept KCS humming with traffic
ON THE COVER: CSX 550 runs southbound on new double track north of downtown Waycross, Ga. Joseph L. Oates photo
8 Future of short lines
22 New tech for BNSF
26 U.S. high-speed rail?
30 Eastern corridors
38 China's slim princess
42 Falling in love with the Lackawanna
50 The one-horsepower railroad
52 Moving molten iron
56 Difference of decades
58 Map: KCS resources
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