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Classic Trains 2023 Fall Vermont Time Machine Serving Uncle Sam Alaska 1960s
Classic Trains 2023 Fall Vermont Time Machine
Classic Trains Is published monthly. On our cover, Grand Trunk train 493 has stopped at Island Pond, Vt., in July 1964 to change crews. Roger Cook
Contents
COVER STORY
20 Vermont Time Machine
ROGER COOK
A visit to Island Pond and the Grand Trunk Railway
28 It's a Fine Pickle You've Gotten Us Into!
STEVE LASHER
Adventures of a Rock Island yard clerk
36 Greetings From Beautiful Murphy Dome
DAVID LUSTIG
There weren't many trains in Alaska, but I managed to find at least a few when in the Air Force
44 A College Kid And The Old Omaha
ANDREW S. NELSON
Chicago & North Western around Eau Claire, Wis., offered plenty of distractions
52 What's in a Photo: Lincoln, Neb., Revisited
JERRY A. PINKEPANK
The rest of the Lincoln
Football Special story
54 Mikados for France
VICTOR HAND
U.S.-built 2-8-2s saved the day for postwar French National Railways
60 Passenger Perspectives:
Santa Fe El Capitan of 1956
MIKE SCHAFER
The "also ran" train was far from it
Departments
4 Welcome Santa Fe's grandest legacy
5Head End A potpourri of railroad history,
then and now
14 Fast Mail Letters from readers on our Summer 2023 issue
16 Mileposts Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe 18 True Color The morning rush in Berkeley 62 Short Rails Commonwealth Edison
64 The Way It Was Tales from railfans and railroaders
72 Car Stop Granite City suburban service
75 Bumping Post Detroit's Brush Street Station
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