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Classic Trains 2019 Winter End of the trail Railway Express Agency
Classic Trains 2019 Winter
Features
COVER STORY
16 End of the Trail
WILLIAM P. DIVEN
Summer trips from New Mexico to Illinois exposed a boy to a world of Midwestern trains and the final flowering of Santa Fe passenger
28 Itinerant Agent
WALTER F. SMITH
Tales of working for NYC in Massachusetts through two world wars and the Depression
34 Empire of Express
JEFF WILSON
From baby chicks to reels of movie film, nearly everything Americans used reached them by Railway Express
44 Bluefield Survivor
J. W. SWAN BERG
An old N&W 2-8-8-2 remains useful even as diesels close in around it
46 Archive Treasures
KEVIN P. KEEFE
An all-star works the minor leagues: Master photographer J. Parker Lamb turns his camera to short lines
54 Seeking Streamliners
BOB JOHNSTON
A cross-country drive in 1969 captured some passenger trains still in their prime and others just barely hanging on
62 What's in a Photo?
JERRY A. PINKEPANK
Barre & Chelsea and Canadian Pacific trains at Wells River, Vt.
64 Ingles Color Classics
J. DAVID INGLES
Overnight to Omaha in a dome coach: A 1962 excursion on CB&Q mail trains also yielded photos of unusual UP power
72 Best of Everything
CHRIS BURGER
"Cheap & Nothing Wasted":
A new job with C&NW brings a move to Wisconsin
Departments
4 Welcome 50 years since the '60s
5 Head End A potpourri of railroad history, then and now
8 Fast Mail Letters from readers on our Fall 2019 issue
12 Mileposts Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe on locomotives in disguise
14 True Color Seaboard sunshine
80 The Way It Was Tales from railfans and railroaders
86 Car Stop Sand Springs Railway
88 Classics Today Illinois Railway Museum 91 Bumping Post Cincinnati Union
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