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Trains Magazine 2008 March KCS Office car special Hometown trains stations new l
Trains 2008 March
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Kansas City Southern's 'Southern Belle' gets ready for her close-up
Ask the folks who run this office-car train: It takes a lot of
work to look this beautiful
Peter A. Hansen
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Map of the Month: Amtrak ridership by station
See where the 25.8 million people who rode Amtrak in 2007 began and ended their journeys
Matt Van Hattem
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Famous in a small town
The American train station is enjoying a renaissance, as communities return historic depots to their former glory and revive fading downtowns Bob Johnston
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Surf, Calif., and the Southern Pacific
I left my New Jersey home and moved to California, only to discover railroading in Surf, a place that offered "the wind, the sand, and the sea" - and much more
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Railroad Reading
Roll 'em, kid: From watching trains roll by the family home stead, to watching them from the engine cab, this Bellevue, Ohio, resident lived his drean to `drive trains'
Carl J. Pambianco
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Gallery
A former Bangor & Aroostook BL2 runs on the Stourbridge Line in White Mills, Pa.
Photo by Fred Jones
8 Quiet zones
14 Siskiyou line to close 20 Technology solves flat-wheel problem
24 KCS office car special 32 Map: Amtrak ridershiF 35 Train stations get a
new look
44 SP in Surf, Calif.
52 How I became an engineer
NEWS
8 News & Photos
Whistle-free zones proliferate, despite concerns
12 Don Phillips 18 Roy Blanchard
20 Technology
Metro-North installs new wheel-truing machine
21 Locomotive
UP's "pit-stop" approach to locomotive servicing
22 Passenger
What's next for Amtrak's Superliner diner-lounges?
23 City Rail
New Jersey Transit improves service
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office
54 Ask TRAINS
55 Fantrip
56 Preservation
58 Products
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