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Classic Trains 2019 Spring Overland Route City of San Francisco Big Boys
Classic Trains 2019 Spring
16 City of San Francisco:
Modern Star of a Historic Route
JOE WELSH
The Overland Route's ultimate train plied its historic path for 35 years
28 Big Boys That Might Have Been
GIL BENNETT
Union Pacific considered ordering a new class of oil-fired 4-8-8-4s for service on its line to southern California
36 Un-driving the Golden Spike
JEFF TERRY, THORNTON H. WAITE, JAMES J. REISDORFF
The original line via Promontory, long unwanted by SP, was sacrificed for World War II
74 Ingles Color Classics
J. DAVID INGLES
A sunny morning in 1969 yielded a successful first visit to PC's Horseshoe Curve
80 View from the
Apartment
DALE W. WOODLAND
Catching the action on an important Reading line
42 Summer of Change
on Donner Pass
SHIRLEY BURMAN
In 1984, Southern Pacific workers replaced one of the last wooden snowsheds with a concrete structure
50 Photo Special
14 photos from six decades on the Overland Route
60 What's in a Photo?
JERRY A. PINKEPANK
UP's Riverdale Yard, Ogden
62 Big Power in the West
A. J. WOLFF
UP and SP continued their long tradition of massive, distinctive locomotives
86 Farewell to Soo Line 7 and 8
JOHN GRUBER
Loss of service in the Upper Peninsula brought "friends" out in droves
90 Best of Everything
CHRIS BURGER
NYC's management program led to a fulfilling career
Departments
4 Welcome The classic Overland Route
5 Head End A potpourri of railroad history, then and now
8 Fast Mail Letters from readers on our Winter 2018 issue
12 True Color Monon and Southern in Louisville
14 Mileposts Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe
95 The Way It Was Tales from railfans and railroaders
1o1 Car Stop Temporary crossover in Minneapolis
102 Classics Today Rail heritage along the Overland Route
105 Bumping Post Southern's New Orleans
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