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Classic Trains 2016 Spring UP in Wyoming Train wreck Southern EL Tower tales
Classic Trains 2016 Spring
FEATURE ARTICLES
20 Wyoming Steam Parade R. Clifford Black IV
In July 1953, a boy and his dad thrilled to UP's constant mainline action
32 What's In a Photo? D&H's Laurentian Jerry A. Pinkepank
Alco RS2s arrive at Plattsburgh, N.Y., in August 1957
34 Left on the Drawing Board - CN steam Kevin J. Holland
Exclusive discovery: Blueprints of proposed 2-6-2 and 2-8-2 that were never built 40 Waiting Your Turn Steve Patterson
A CB&Q freight stabs D&RGW's Yampa Valley and the California Zephyr in 1966
42 Breaking in at Maitland Tower David Birckbichler
On his second day, an Erie Lackawanna operator catches good, and bad, breaks
46 Calamity at Glenita Ron Flanary
Southern learned some lessons in technology from a 1968 coal train pile-up
54 3 Photographers on The Hill Tom Gildersleeve
Different perspectives on an SP freight cresting Donner Pass in 1967
56 Travels With Earl Ed King
An express messenger on the N&W gave his grandson the gift of railroading
60 Delray Days J. David Ingles
Action with seven railroads at the heart of Detroit railroading a half century ago
70 Bird's-Eye View: LV in Hazleton, Pa. Richard W. Jahn
A gas-electric waits for a steam train to clear the depot track in 1950 72 Journey to Naptown, 1944 Charlie Ardery
On riding PRR, Washington to Indianapolis, in a Spirit of St. Louis drawing room
IN EVERY ISSUE
3 Welcome The lure of the interlocking tower
6 Contributors Meet this issue's crew
8 Head End Items from railroad history, then and now 10 Fast Mail Letters from our readers
14 True Color Camera at the ready, on the Milwaukee Road 16 Fallen Flags Remembered Piedmont & Northern
76 Classics Today Indianapolis Union Station
78 The Way It Was Tales from railfans and railroaders 86 Car Stop Montana's Anaconda Street Railway
88 Ready Track Brief reviews of new products
91 Bumping Post Escondido, Calif, a Santa Fe outpost with a future
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