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Trains Magazine 2014 June Paducah & Louisville Blacklands BNSF Michigan Northern
Trains Vol 74 No 6 June 2014
Table of Contents
FEATURES
COVER STORY
38 Paducah & Louisville
A regional's song of success is in the key of
Charles Buccola
24 Taking root in Texas
How one man planted his feet in East Texas to grow his short line
Ken Fitzgerald
28 Rolling toward a smarter future
The City of Prineville Railway risked abandonment, but the townspeople found new traffic sources and turned it around Jeffrey R. Richardson
32 Those who derail ...
A good day on the railroad can go bad in a matter of seconds
Paul Baumgartner
34 Map of the Month: Whatever happened to the Santa Fe?
One of the West's most colorful railroads lives on as BNSF Railway's Transcon corridor Bill Metzger
36 A lesson at Lucinda
Shipping lumber by rail to Lucinda, Pa., was a testament to railroading's advantages
J. David Ingles
46Born in the USA
Grafton & Upton operates one of the last American-built Fs in freight service
Scott A. Hartley
50 Six-axle short line
A Pennsylvania short line dodges commuter trains, connects to two other short
lines, and runs six-axle units in Rio Grande colors
Dale W. Woodland
54 In My Own Words: Old habits die hard
One engineer's passion for GP9s makes him wonder if this will be his last trip in its cab
Charles H. Geletzke Jr.
ON THE COVER Paducah & Louisville empty coal train LG3 heads south across a trestle at Muldraugh Hill near West Point, Ky., on Aug. 16, 2010. Photo by Mike Biehn
8 In-cab camera debate
10 BNSF's new salad shooter
24 Blacklands: Growing strong in Texas
28 Oregon's comeback kid
32 Michigan Northern memories
34 Map: Do you know the way to Santa Fe?
38 Paducah & Louisville: Song of its successes
46 'F' still stands for freight
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