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Classic Trains 2020 Fall North to Florida Twin Cities steam holdouts CP Brakeman
Classic Trains 2020 Fall
CONTENTS
Features
COVER STORY16 North to Florida for a Winter Vacation PHIL GOSNEYA young man finds a world of passenger-train action at Jacksonville during a week-long, seven-train tour of the Deep South in late 1968
26 Steam's Last Stand in the Twin Cities JEFF TERRYTwo former Soo Line 0-6-0s kept St. Paul's fires burning into 1964
32 Nightfall for Ohio Interurban ART PETERSONThree of the Buckeye State's last traction lines made a vivid impression after dark
36 Ingles Color Classics: Alco's Outlier J. DAVID INGLESThe Century 420 was a comparative beauty among beasts
44 What's in a Photo? JERRY A. PINKEPANKA re-engined MoPac RS3 delivers a car at Sedalia, Mo.
46 Charlie's Photo Album FRED B. FURMINGERRailfan/railroader Charles Erler documented the western New York railroad scene in the 1940s
54 Mountain Brakeman STEVE BRADLEYRide over CP Rail's tough Mountain Subdivision in the cab of an SD40-2
62 Jersey City Sunset BRIAN SOLOMONA forest of semaphores kept trains safe at CNJ's biggest terminal
64 Archive Treasures: A Passion for Small Railroads KEVIN P. KEEFEPhotographer Fred Springer was drawn to colorful short lines in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi
72 Best of Everything CHRIS BURGERAdventures with North Western's "F Troop": Railroaders on C&NW's former Chicago Great Western lines faced a host of challenges
Departments
4 Welcome Expanding horizons in a shrinking world
5 Head End A potpourri of railroad history, then and now
8 Fast Mail Letters from readers on our Summer 2020 issue
12 True Colors Santa Fe blasts off at La Junta 14 Mileposts Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe
78 The Way It Was Tales from railfans and railroaders
84 Car Stop Traction in the garden
86 Classics Today North Carolina Transportation Museum
91 Bumping Post Nashville Union Station
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