Trains Magazine 2017 September How the rails got their rhythm Midwest short line
Trains Vol 77 No 9 September 2017
Table of Contents
23 Rhythm of the rails
American roots music grew up along the tracks, and its heart was in Mississippi Kevin P. Keefe
34 Writing of "City of New Orleans"
The short trip that led to a long-lasting train song Craig Sanders
46 The rock and roll railroad
D & I Railroad keeps rocking after 37 years
Steve Glischinski
40 'Mardi Gras' parties on
The life and times of America's Club Car is immortalized in a song Ed Ellis
54 Divine will
You have no idea of the things we have to do and say sometimes just to keep the wheels rolling
Ed King
20 Map of the Month: Conrail, 1980 to 1999
Decades of change on Big Blue reshaped the Northeast's rail map
Bill Metzger
56 In My Own Words: The circus comes to town
An assistant trainmaster meets elephants and polar bears Brooks A. Bentz
ON THE COVER The fireman of Illinois Central's City of New Orleans waves as No. 1 crosses the Louisville & Nashville diamond in Ashley, Ill., on June 2, 1964. Photo by J. David Ingles
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